Saunders: Bureaucracy and Billions Deliver Just Seven EV Stations Nationwide

By Joe Saunders | Commentary, The Western Journal

When it comes to case studies in government incompetence, former President Joe Biden’s administration is a master class.

Whether it was disastrous foreign policies like the withdrawal from Afghanistan, or disastrous domestic ideas like opening the southern border to an invasion of illegal immigrants from all over the globe, the Biden years were a lesson in the limitations of Democratic rule.

Now, a new report from the Government Accountability Office is driving the message home in a way any American who drives can understand.

The report released Tuesday shows the Biden administration’s $7.5 billion program created by the 2021 infrastructure bill to provide public chargers for electric vehicle use had managed, by April of this year, to install fewer than 400 of the stations on the highways and byways of these United States.

That’s just under $20 million per charging station — in a nation of 330 million people. Even by Biden standards, it’s an unfathomable amount of money for an unfathomably negligible gain.

To its credit, the Trump administration, as Reuters noted, suspended the EV charging station program in February.

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