Without access to charging stations, Black and Hispanic communities may be left behind in the era of

[Eugene]

Source: Washington Post

Without access to charging stations, Black and Hispanic communities may be left behind in the era of electric vehicles

By Will Englund
December 9, 2021 at 7:00 a.m. EST

CHICAGO — Standing on the rear third-floor deck of the Blacks in Green building on South Cottage Grove Avenue, Naomi Davis and Stacey McIlvaine looked out over the desert that is West Woodlawn.

Davis, an environmental activist, and McIlvaine, an electrician, had come together on a gray fall day to discuss how they could correct a complete absence of electric vehicle chargers in one of Chicago’s preeminent Black neighborhoods.

McIlvaine pointed out possible locations for a charger in the parking lot behind the building. Davis, the founder of the 14-year-old Blacks in Green environmental advocacy organization, considered that if her organization doesn’t act, her community might be left behind in the era of electric cars.

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Look at any map of charging stations in the United States, and in most of the big cities, what is immediately apparent are big blank spaces coinciding with Black and Latino neighborhoods. Electric vehicle advocates call them charging deserts.

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Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2021/12/09/charging-deserts-evs/

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1. Surprise?

[NNadir]

2. Without lots and lots of cobalt dug by de facto slaves in Africa the era of electric cars will be...

...left behind.

It's an unsustainable fad.

[progree]

3. Best to stick to gasoline ICE. No human rights abuses in the Niger Delta or Ecuador or the Congo

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My father worked in the Congo and the Niger Delta in the 1970's - 1980's. It was not paradaisical working conditions there either with no forced labor, right. No particularly problematic environmental problems either, and those aren't human-rights abuses anyway because....

No refineries in the U.S. built disproportionately next to POC communities. No that never happens.

No ethnic / racial disparity in car ownership either.

I wish for the love of Jesus of Nazareth and the Blessed Virgin Mother Mary that JUST ONCE in this group that people got as pissed off at super-gasoline-guzzling ever-growing "real-man" pedestrian-murdering monster pickups with neck-high front grills that 95% of the people who own them don't need as they do about a fucking little EV.

The gasoline-ICE path is not sustainable either.... Mauna Loa ...

History will not forgive us. Nor should it.