From: Alan <nuh-uh@nope.com>
Newsgroups: alt.global-warming,alt.fan.rush-limbaugh,can.politics,alt.politics.liberalism,alt.politics.democrats,alt.politics.usa.republican
Subject: Re: BIDEN CLAIMS CREDIT For 500,000 EV Charging Stations - Only 8 Were Built
Date: Fri, 27 Dec 2024 20:25:29 -0800
Organization: A noiseless patient Spider
On 2024-12-27 18:45, AlleyCat wrote:
>
> BIDEN (not Trump) CLAIMS CREDIT For 500,000 EV Charging Stations -
> Only 8 Were Built
>
> CLAIM: "Creating hundreds of thousands of jobs in clean energy for
> American workers, including the IBEW installing 500,000-500,000-
> charging stations all across America." VERDICT: MOSTLY FALSE. They
> built eight, as of May.
What does the words "creating" and "installing" mean:
Something that has happened?
Or something that is in the PROCESS of happening?
Especially when that statement was in a paragraph that clearly talks
about an endpoint 6 years in the future:
"Cutting carbon emissions in half by 2030."
>
> As part of the bipartisan infrastructure bill, President Joe Biden
> claimed credit Monday night for building 500,000 electric vehicle
> (EV) charging stations.
>
> As of May 2024, two-and-a-half years after the bill was passed, only
> eight of the charging stations had been built.
>
> As Breitbart News recently noted:
>
> Harris has a track record against which to measure her promise , and
> it is the failure of the Biden-Harris administration to build the
> electric vehicle (EV) charging stations that it promised to build
> under the infrastructure bill of 2021. at a cost of $7.5 billion.
>
> The goal was 500,000; two-and-a-half years later, as of May 2024,
> only eight EV stations had been built.
>
> In May, Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg was asked by CBS
> News's Face the Nation to explain why only eight of the promised EV
> stations had been built:
>
> Buttigieg promised that the remainder would be built by 2030.
>
> That could theoretically happen, though it is doubtful.
>
> Regardless, Biden cannot claim credit for 500,000 EV charging
> stations. It is a promise his successor, whether Harris or former
> President Donald Trump, must fulfill.
>
> https://climatechangedispatch.com/biden-promised-half-a-million-ev-
> charging-stations-we-now-have-eight/ https://
> climatechangedispatch.com/buttigieg-cant-explain-why-government-only-
> has-a-few-ev-charging-stations/ https://climatechangedispatch.com/
> the-most-bipartisan-part-of-the-infrastructure-bill-green-corporate-
> welfare/ https://climatechangedispatch.com/trumps-day-one-job-
> in-2025-reverse-bidens-authoritarian-ev-mandate/ https://
> en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
> International_Brotherhood_of_Electrical_Workers https://
> www.autoweek.com/news/a60702457/federal-funds-yield-only-8-ev-
> charging-stations/ https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/05/26/
> buttigieg-cant-explain-why-biden-has-only-built-seven-or-eight-ev-
> charging-stations/ https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/08/16/
> kamala-promises-to-build-3-million-homes-in-4-years-biden-harris-
> built-only-8-ev-stations-in-2-5-years/
>
> =====
>
> December:
>
> Murcia's Record Lows
>
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>
> Italian Alps Hit -31.1c (-24f)
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>