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Offline rangerrebew

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The Great EV Grift: $7.5 Billion for 384 Charging Ports That Nobody Uses
« on: July 30, 2025, 12:37:17 pm »
July 30, 2025
The Great EV Grift: $7.5 Billion for 384 Charging Ports That Nobody Uses
By Charlton Allen

Once upon a time in America, taxpayers were scandalized to learn the Pentagon paid $400 for a toilet seat. It was front-page news. Congressional hearings were convened. Outrage flowed like prune juice at the Biden White House breakfast buffet.


Fast forward to 2025, and no one bats an eye over spending more than that for just a toilet.

In fact, the federal government under the Biden administration set aside a whopping $7.5 billion in cold, hard, debased American currency—and to date, we’ve got a grand total of 384 E.V. chargers to show for it.


And here’s the twist: hardly anyone is shocked.

No wall-to-wall hearings.


No breathless exposés strung out on tenterhooks.

No Geraldo Rivera cracking open an empty safe at Fort Knox.

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2025/07/the_great_ev_grift_7_5_billion_for_384_charging_ports_that_nobody_uses.html
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Re: The Great EV Grift: $7.5 Billion for 384 Charging Ports That Nobody Uses
« Reply #1 on: July 30, 2025, 12:43:23 pm »
Quote from: rangerrebew on July 30, 2025, 12:37:17 pm

No Geraldo Rivera cracking open an empty safe at Fort Knox.
 

Speaking of our good buddy, where has he been?  I would have expected him to lead the mostly peaceful riots in LA or anywhere else he was wanted.  Maybe that rent-a-protestor business could use a good field leader. :whistle:
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Re: The Great EV Grift: $7.5 Billion for 384 Charging Ports That Nobody Uses
« Reply #2 on: July 30, 2025, 01:10:51 pm »
That's over 19.5 million per charger.  **nononono*
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Re: The Great EV Grift: $7.5 Billion for 384 Charging Ports That Nobody Uses
« Reply #3 on: July 30, 2025, 01:17:14 pm »
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The per-port cost? Roughly $19 million.

Just wow, and I wonder if they put them in diverse communities where they are likely now non-operational? I wonder just how much they inflate the price of electricity to provide repair services revenue for union workers that keep them running?
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Re: The Great EV Grift: $7.5 Billion for 384 Charging Ports That Nobody Uses
« Reply #4 on: July 30, 2025, 06:02:38 pm »
Hopefully they will be able to claw some of this $$$ back.

I sense that most of this money was never really intended to be used for the proffered purpose (i.e., charging stations), but was simply being "laundered through this appropriation" for graft and other ill-intended uses...
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Re: The Great EV Grift: $7.5 Billion for 384 Charging Ports That Nobody Uses
« Reply #5 on: July 30, 2025, 06:05:41 pm »
Quote from: Fishrrman on July 30, 2025, 06:02:38 pm
Hopefully they will be able to claw some of this $$$ back.

I sense that most of this money was never really intended to be used for the proffered purpose (i.e., charging stations), but was simply being "laundered through this appropriation" for graft and other ill-intended uses...
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As was so much for other 'causes'.
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Re: The Great EV Grift: $7.5 Billion for 384 Charging Ports That Nobody Uses
« Reply #6 on: August 03, 2025, 08:48:27 am »
More EV grift: Head of the EPA Lee Zeldin says the Biden Admin sent $160 million dollars to a Canadian electric vehicles company. They pocketed the money, didn’t send the school busses promised and then declared bankruptcy ...

https://twitter.com/WallStreetApes/status/1951779100462641330
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