The Trump administration has ordered US states to suspend a $5bn electric vehicle charging station program in a further blow to the environmental movement since the president’s return to the White House.
In a memo issued on Thursday to state transportation directors, the transportation department’s Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) ordered states not to spend any funds allocated to them under the Biden administration as part of the national electric vehicle infrastructure (NEVI) program.
“The new leadership of the Department of Transportation … has decided to review the policies underlying the implementation of the NEVI Formula Program,” Emily Biondi, the FHWA’s associate administrator for planning, environment and realty, wrote in the memo. “Accordingly, the current NEVI Formula Program Guidance dated June 11, 2024, and all prior versions of this guidance are rescinded,” Biondi added.
Wonder how president musk feels about that. 🤔
It’s great for him, he already has a pretty prolific charging network. All this does is hamper the competition.
Its exactly why this kind of thing is happening, it prevents competition in the EV space. Government subsidies for charging infrastructure means people can pick cars based on the car and not charging.
Possibly the funniest conflict of interest of all time
You people need to stop listening to this buffon and IGNORE those orders!
You can’t really ignore an order that defunds you. People aren’t going to be installing charging stations for free.
then extort that money from that fat ass and his loony goons.
Yeah, you’ll all have to follow the Luigi path to fix this. Politics has failed.
Conservatives: Do you want gas prices to go down or not‽ The way to keep gas prices down is to keep liberals buying electric vehicles!
Moves like this are only going to make gas prices go up!
This requires skills such as critical thinking, problem solving, and long-term planning.
Republicans can’t think beyond what they believe “ownz teh libz” right now. Nor do they want to. If it doesn’t “pwn th3 l1bs” right this second, they’re not even remotely interested.
Remember, the party is actively anti DEI, anti science, anti-intellectual now. They wear it as a badge of honor. They consider things like critical thinking and long-term planning “woke” and grounds for banishment from the party. Ask them to think critically and they will literally tell you “we don’t want to.”
Ever watch Pinnochio? The scene where the kids are all playing around without any supervision and slowly turning into mindless jackasses, not realizing what’s happening until it’s too late and they’re reduced to mindlessly thrashing around in terror? That. That’s what’s happening right now. They just think that it’s “everybody else” that will turn into the jackasses, not realizing they’ve already started growing a tail.
They’re dumb as fuck and they want it this way.
Well that just hurt some American jobs I’m sure.
