North Carolina Looks to Remove Public EV Chargers, Probably to the Trash

[IcyPeas]

A bill currently in the works in the North Carolina legislature would allocate $50,000 to get rid of free public EV chargers unless free gas pumps are built alongside.

Politicians have to run on some kind of platform, and Ben Moss—my incoming state House representative here in North Carolina's District 52—decided that his animating principle is Being Mad at Electricity. To prove his animosity toward this invisible menace, he's sponsoring House Bill 1049, which would allocate $50,000 to destroy free public car chargers. It contains some other enlightened ideas, but that's the main theme: We've simply got to do something about these free public chargers, even if it costs us $50,000! Those things cost tens of cents per hour, when they're being used.

Of course, there's a caveat here. Moss isn't saying that free public Level 2 chargers—of which there are three in my town, with plans in the works to convert to paid kiosks—definitely need to get crushed by a monster truck. That rule only comes into play if a town refuses to build free gas and diesel pumps next to the EV chargers. So anyway, warm up El Toro Loco, we're smashin' some car zappers!
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Electron heads, as I call them, also like to point out that electricity is generated domestically, so your transportation dollars are staying in the U.S. rather than going to, say, Saudi Arabia. And if you really want to keep your money in your community, you can hire a local company to install solar panels and make your own electricity.

full article:
https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a40543385/north-carolina-wants-remove-free-public-ev-chargers/

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[ProfessorGAC]

1. One Nit To Pick

Saudi Arabia is a bad example to use as comparison to domestic electricity.
The US gets under 5% of oil from OPEC countries, or 2.6% from SA. (About 550k barrels out of almost 21 million daily.)
I get the point, but since we import very little oil from them it's a weak example

That said, Moss is an idiot.

[unweird]

2. Idiots in North Carolina Looks to Remove Public EV Chargers, Probably to the Trash

Whose idiots? North Carolina’s idiots, that’s who.

[LonePirate]

3. These a-holes will do anything to fuck up society and our planet. We know who's lining his pockets.