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Monday's Energy Absurdity: Pete Buttigieg Explains Biden's $7.5 Billion EV Charger Boondoggle

David Blackmon
May 27, 2024

I will make this one as quick and painless for you as possible. Sunday, on CBS’s “Face the Nation Program,” Host Margaret Brennan posed a tough question to Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg: How do you explain the utter failure thus far of the Biden administration to install just “7 or 8” high-speed EV charging station in 3 years despite working with a massive $7.5 billion pot of money?

Buttigieg, who was once considered one of his party’s “rising stars,” shows why few in Washington, DC think of him in that way anymore.

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Transcript:

Brennan: The Federal Highway Department says only 7 or 8 charging stations have been built despite having a $7.5 billion investment that taxpayers made back in 2021. Why isn’t that happening more quickly?

Buttigieg: So, the President’s goal is to have half a million chargers up by the end of this decade. Now, in order to do a charger, it’s more than just plunking uh, uh, uh, a small device into the ground. There’s utility work, and this is also really a new category of federal investment. But we’ve been working with each of the 50 states, every one of them is getting formula dollars to do this work, engaging them…

Brennan: [interrupts with a mocking laugh] Just 7 or 8, though?

Buttigieg: …to get the first handful…Again, this is by 2030, 500,000 chargers, and the very first handful of chargers are already being built.

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I bolded that last bit for emphasis. Think about that statement. We are already 3 years down the road, and Sec. Buttigieg is boasting about “already” having built “7 or 8” out of 500,000 planned charging stations.

Elon Musk and Tesla are able to “just plunk down” hundreds of new high speed charging stations around the world each and every day of the year with seeming ease, yet our Transportation Secretary wants us all to believe this is akin to rocket science.

In other words, he thinks you are all very stupid. And I guess his presence as the nation’s Transportation Secretary proves too damn many of us truly are.

That is all.

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