Real? Not real? Do these EV chargers require payment for use? Or, are they simply free? Are federal employees charging for government business, or, for their own personal use?
Trump administration reportedly shutting down federal EV chargers nationwide
The General Services Administration, the agency that manages buildings owned by the federal government, is planning to shut down its entire network of electric vehicle chargers, according to a report in The Verge.
The GSA reportedly operates a network of hundreds of EV chargers with a total of 8,000 plugs that can be used to charge vehicles owned by the government and by federal employees. A source told The Verge that federal workers will receive guidance next week to shut those chargers down, with some regional offices already told to take their chargers offline.
Earlier this week, Colorado Public Radio obtained an internal email stating that charging stations at the Denver Federal Center would be shut down as they are “not mission critical.”
Let’s flip to that link
According to an internal email CPR News obtained from multiple sources, the U.S. General Services Administration says the government-owned chargers are not critical to how it does its work.
“As GSA has worked to align with the current administration, we have received direction that all GSA-owned charging stations are not mission-critical,” the email reads.
The GSA’s website says the Federal Center has 22 “fully functional” charging stations at 11 locations on the campus in Denver’s western suburbs. The email, sent from a GSA official, says some will be taken offline within the next week and others will be shut down once contracts are canceled.
“Neither Government Owned Vehicles nor Privately Owned Vehicles will be able to charge at these charging stations once they’re out of service,” the email says.
They are supposedly operated by solar power, so, if 100% so, let them run. And if there are lots of GSA owned EVs, let them operate. They are already in operation. But, I’ve had no luck in finding out how many EVs operate out of Denver. If there are lots, leave the charging stations operational. Certainly more cost effective to charge than at privately owned stations.
I say leave any anywhere that are operating up and running. Can’t hurt. But, the report will surely make the moonbats bark. Oh, and the last paragraph
Local officials also are worried that the administration’s plans to slash federal workspace could mean the closure of the Federal Center itself. Many federal workers who have not been terminated, however, are being instructed to return to the office.
If they can prove they are just as productive at home as at the office and do not need to be there everyday, I’m OK with remote. But, the employees do not get that choice.
If we have already purchased them, and we have plug-in electric vehicles that the government has purchased, it doesn’t make a lot of sense to just shut them down. If they exist to encourage federal workers to purchase electric vehicles, then it’s fine to keep them, if the workers are being charged — pun most definitely intended — to charge up their Chevy Dolts.
It’s just more of Trump’s performative governing. An ounce of image is worth a pound of performance.
Will Mr Musk give up all his federal contracts? Will he repay all the subsidies Tesla and Tesla buyers received?
I have never seen a government owned Tesla. Have you?
Why would he give up government contracts that were awarded previous to this administration and he was the lowest bidder? The “subsidies” Tesla receives comes from selling “credits” created by government climate programs.Tesla sells these credits (carbon credits, Johnny?) to rival car companies that don’t meet stricter emissions standards. Gee, what party would push government climate programs…?
No truer words have been written.
https://x.com/jeffreyatucker/status/1893787435659674034?mx=2
Elon Rules!!!
MAGA47 Motherfuckers!
The MAGA Motherfucker finally gets one right!!
It’s called blitzkrieg.
In related news, there were more neo-Nazis at CPAC this year than in all of Ukraine!
Democrats held H!tler rallies across the USA… Republicans didn’t… There are reports that the chants of “He!~l H!tler” could be heard over a mile away from the Central Park N@zi rallies, the Madison Sq. Gardens N@zi rally is legendary, and they were held in other major cities as well such as Chicago and LA, smaller Dem controlled cities had rallies too… All members of the Democratic Party, which was really big on Socialism at the time… New Deal anyone?
You should look up the “German Bund”, or the “Friends of New Germany”… They were Democratic Party groups, each VASTLY larger than the Dixiecrats ever were, dedicated to supporting H!tler’s policies of socialism…
Antifa nominated @dolph H!tler for a Nobel Peace Prize in 1938… (Erik Gottfrid Christian Brandt (31 August 1884 – 22 October 1955) was a Swedish politician (Social Democratic) and a deputy in the Swedish Parliament in the years 1938–1943.) Other leftist politicians and academics nominated Benito Mussolini for the Nobel Peace Prize in 1935, and Stalin twice, once in 1945, and again in 1948…
Totally true. I think it was Kevin O’Leary who correctly stated that as Trump and his admin are committed to and working toward obliterating the deep state in record time, they must go much farther and make deeper and more drastic cuts. O’Leary said looking back at prior instances of historical economic corrections, there was always the question of whether they should have gone much farther knowing the complacency and reticence of government to act and the propensity for corruption in future regimes moving forward. Removing whole departments of government with concomitant laws passed preventing their resurrection will go a long way to truncating the power of government. Governments motive is to spiral backwards into chaotic spending, growing government needlessly (to create dependency and power), and coercing the middle class to bifurcate into 2 classes: the wealthy and the poor. Congress must pass laws against what we endured over the last few decades but specifically the prior 4 years. Laws against money printing, laws requiring the backing of money with precious metals, laws limiting the scope of government in American lives.
Democrats: ‘If we could just jail Trump, get rid of MAGA, end the criminal investigations against us, get rid of the Electoral College, end the filibuster, eliminate DNC ‘spoiler’ and unwanted 3rd party candidates, add states to stack the representation in Congress, stack the Supreme Court, ban voter ID, and censor free speech, we could save democracy!’
“Sure we’ll have Fascism here, but it will come as an anti-Fascism movement.” – Huey Long (D), Louisiana (1933) He was a socialist Democrat, defending actual Italian Fascism from Republican political criticism…
FDR adviser Rexford Guy Tugwell said of Italian fascism: “It’s the cleanest, neatest, most efficiently operating piece of social machinery I’ve ever seen. It makes me envious,” adding that, “I find Italy doing many of the things which seem to me necessary … Mussolini certainly has the same people opposed to him as FDR has.”
“I don’t mind telling you in confidence that I am keeping in fairly close touch with that admirable Italian gentleman.” – FDR
“There seems to be no question that [Mussolini] is really interested in what we are doing and I am much interested and deeply impressed by what he has accomplished and by his evidenced honest purpose of restoring Italy.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
“I just have a hunch that Stalin is not that kind of man. Harry [Hopkins] says he’s not and that he doesn’t want anything except security for his own country, and I think that if I give him everything I possibly can and ask nothing from him in return, noblesse oblige, he won’t try to annex anything and will work with me for a world of democracy and peace.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
“I am much interested and deeply impressed by what he has accomplished and by his evidenced honest purpose of restoring Italy and seeking to prevent general European trouble” – Franklin D. Roosevelt (about Benito Mussolini)
Democrats and socialists never change…
Apple is committing $500 billion to the U.S. economy in a historic initiative, the company announced on Monday, marking “an extraordinary new chapter in the history of American innovation.”
Apple’s 11-figure commitment will roll out over the next five years. It will involve building an advanced AI server manufacturing factory near Houston, as well as doubling the company’s Advanced Manufacturing Fund from $5 billion to $10 billion.
The tech giant also plans to establish an Apple Manufacturing Academy in Detroit and hire 20,000 new employees, with a focus on research and development, silicon engineering, artificial intelligence, and machine learning.
That is at least a trillion committed to the USA in one month of Trump being in office. Not to mention, others are already saying they will return some of their business to the USA from Mexico.
Companies all over the planet are rolling into the USA. Or so it seems. The minute Trump leaves office and the democrats take over which is more likely than not to happen because of 4 years of TRUMP IS EVIL screams from the unhinged marginalized left will ultimately run the right out of office.
Then these companies will take their business back to CHINA or MEXICO, where they can get 2 bucks an hour labor instead of 25 dollars an hour labor…….And Gavin Newsome will?
And the walls came down
All the way to Hell
Never saw them when they standing
Never saw them when they fell.
The writer (who?) opens the article with several questions one of which is the question of fee for service. EV chargers are expensive to operate but it does not fit the DoGE mission to simply shut off the chargers especially when Musk’s own product benefits from the existence of these chargers. If it’s an unauthorized use mater, equip the government owned vehicles with a transponder that activates the charger.
Indoctrination or not, EVs are a scam. Battery tech is at the same level as co vid vaccs. It’s junk.
I’m so tired of all these leftists celebrating the first “person of color” to lead the FBI, aren’t you…?
The gub-mint should not be installing EV chargers anywhere. (Do they also install gas pumps at gub-mint offices?) There should be no taxpayer money used to subsidize chargers or vehicles. No tax breaks either. If they can’t be produced on the free market, then that means people don’t want them and they don’t get produced.
I can’t believe that someone living in the mile high city of Denver, where it gets very cold, would want to own an electric vehicle. It makes absolutely no sense to me. Electric vehicle’s are not efficient at high temperatures or low temperatures. It’s incredible. That money was wasted on any of this. Yank this infrastructure out get rid of the electric vehicles, as they have a very short lifespan anyway. This was such a waste of money.
I started seeing EV SUV’s $100K+ being driven by military recruiters the last few years. Prior to that, they were driving little four cylinder cars with great gas mileage. Congress intentionally worked with the big 3 to end cheap small car production. Ford announced the end of “car” production in America. We are in a critical time where we need RELIABLE cheap vehicles. Or face what they have been planning. A prison planet, no freedom of travel.
It seems as a reporter one might want to do a little digging to better understand why these would be shut down. It seems to me that they would sell them to a private business if they were remotely profitable. But in extreme cold and snow conditions or where there is already a strain on the electric grid, maybe they are just a drain on resources. Elon Musk would have a vested interest in keeping them open even with subsidies if they were used enough to at least break even.
I agree with your statement that there is no practical reason for federal workers not to work remotely. In fact, in cases like my job and life circumstances before I retired, the government should encourage it.
There are many jobs today where ALL workday functions—writing, calculations, research, reports, communications, etc.—are performed on the computer…even meetings. Output, quality, and due date requirements don’t change, and many studies show there is no loss of production between in-office and remote work locations (slackers at home are slackers in office). Therefore, SINCE THE LACK OF WORK ACCOMPLISHED IS A MANAGEMENT AND PERSONNEL ISSUE, NOT WORK LOCATION…AND REMOTE WORKERS REDUCE OVERHEAD COSTS, I WANT, as a taxpayer, THE LEAST COSTLY OPTION!!! So I’m for remote work for all government employees..and fewer federal office buildings…Please!
When was the last time you drove by a US Government gas station?