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Biden Admin Classifies Martha’s Vineyard, Elite Locales As ‘Low-Income’ To Push EV Charger Subsidies
Daily Caller ^ | 02/06/2024 | Nick Pope

Posted on 02/06/2024 8:45:22 PM PST by SeekAndFind

The Biden administration is classifying some of the country’s most elite and exclusive locales as “low-income” areas, making them eligible for electric vehicle (EV) charger subsidy programs.

The administration’s EV charger tax credit program — made possible by the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), President Joe Biden’s signature climate bill — is specifically designed to route subsidies to “low-income” or “non-urban” areas of the country. The “low-income” emphasis for eligibility aligns in spirit with the Biden administration’s wider pursuit of so-called “environmental justice,” which is effectively the combination of social justice ideology and green policy.

Numerous elite hangouts and locales — including Montauk and Fishers Island in New York, and parts of Martha’s Vineyard and Nantucket in Massachusetts — are among the areas that the administration has classified as “low-income” and eligible for receipt of EV charger subsidies, according to a Daily Caller News Foundation analysis of the Department of Energy’s (DOE) interactive eligibility map.

Building out a nationwide charging network is a key supporting plank of the Biden administration’s EV agenda, but the charging infrastructure that currently exists is concentrated in wealthier, more densely-populated coastal regions of the country. The Biden administration’s tax credit program is designed to blunt the costs of charger construction specifically in non-urban, less wealthy parts of the country that would be less likely to install them.

“This tax credit provides up to 30% off the cost of the charger to individuals and businesses in low-income communities and non-urban areas, making it more affordable to install EV charging infrastructure and increasing access to EV charging in underserved communities,” the White House stated on Jan. 19.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailycaller.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: automotive; corruption; electric; ev; lowincome; marthasvineyard; subsidies

1 posted on 02/06/2024 8:45:22 PM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind
The Biden administration is classifying some of the country's most elite and exclusive locales as “low-income” areas

Then they can shelter a few thousand illegal aliens, instead of sending them all to low income black neighborhoods.

2 posted on 02/06/2024 8:52:10 PM PST by Toddsterpatriot (TANSTAAFL)
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To: SeekAndFind
Criminal, yet funny.

So where's Letitia James on the falsely submitted Financials?

3 posted on 02/06/2024 9:12:34 PM PST by blackdog ((Z28.310) Be careful what you say. Your refrigerator may be listening & reporting you.)
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To: SeekAndFind
In related news, the city council of Memphis just voted themselves free lifetime health insurance for themselves and family members.

Every government employee should be shifted to Obamacare immediately.

4 posted on 02/06/2024 9:18:02 PM PST by blackdog ((Z28.310) Be careful what you say. Your refrigerator may be listening & reporting you.)
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To: SeekAndFind

I think the Biden regime and the Beltway bureaucrats know they are losing in November and they are busy stealing the fine China and silverware while they can. They will rob the Treasury non-stop until November, and have passed legislation preventing any opposition to the theft in perpetuity.


5 posted on 02/06/2024 9:23:03 PM PST by blackdog ((Z28.310) Be careful what you say. Your refrigerator may be listening & reporting you.)
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To: SeekAndFind

The Left uses power to direct benefits to their supporters, and punish their enemies.

“Conservatives” take it as a mark of political virtue to penalize their own supporters. (They do this in order to ingratiate themselves with the elites who are all Leftist.)


6 posted on 02/06/2024 9:25:36 PM PST by Reverend Wright ( Everything touched by progressives, dies !)
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To: SeekAndFind

You know the Biden Crime Family is getting a piece of that.


7 posted on 02/06/2024 9:48:29 PM PST by mass55th (“Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.” ― John Wayne)
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To: Reverend Wright
"The Left uses power to direct benefits to their supporters..."

Especially their biggest donors. RATS use taxpayer money to fund projects that their biggest donors are invested in. Andrew Cuomo did it all the time. Obama did it with the solar panel companies. And it didn't matter that those projects went bust, or solar panel companies filed bankruptcy. Somebody still made money off of them. Bet those charging stations are connected to RAT donors.

8 posted on 02/06/2024 9:54:57 PM PST by mass55th (“Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.” ― John Wayne)
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To: mass55th

But Repubs do not punish their big donors.

They serve them. They sacrifice the interests of their voters, for benefits for their big donors - eg. open borders cheap labor.

Repubs also punish their base voters, (entitlement cuts, green taxes), to the applause of the elites.


9 posted on 02/06/2024 11:27:25 PM PST by Reverend Wright ( Everything touched by progressives, dies !)
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You’re right...Repukes are as bad as the RATS.


10 posted on 02/07/2024 12:14:08 AM PST by mass55th (“Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.” ― John Wayne)
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To: SeekAndFind

I don’t think the authors took a look at the eligibility locator map linked in the article. Both islands had areas that aren’t eligible for the credit...


11 posted on 02/07/2024 3:46:26 AM PST by EVO X ( )
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To: SeekAndFind

Yes....a disadvantaged, poorly-resourced community that couldn’t even handle a plane load of ‘migrants.’ /s


12 posted on 02/07/2024 3:50:33 AM PST by Gaffer
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To: SeekAndFind

This is rich.


13 posted on 02/07/2024 4:49:32 AM PST by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 /!i!! &@$%&*(@ -)
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To: SeekAndFind

Bttt


14 posted on 02/07/2024 5:54:00 AM PST by ChildOfThe60s ("If you can remember the 60s....you weren't really there")
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To: SeekAndFind

Manhattan, Bel Aire and Beverly Hills are next................


15 posted on 02/07/2024 6:04:59 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal qs are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: logi_cal869

Most EV owners I know are low income. I think I pulled a rib muscle laughing.

EC


16 posted on 02/07/2024 6:16:37 AM PST by Ex-Con777
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To: SeekAndFind

The Biden administration wasting tax dollars for where you can’t live they are so poor they had to evict the illegals for the lack of food .................................


17 posted on 02/07/2024 8:12:07 AM PST by Vaduz
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To: SeekAndFind

It’s true. The people who LIVE and WORK (as domestic slaves) to the elites who own second third fourth mansions on Martha’s Vineyard are legit low income. The RICH don’t LIVE there, they only vacation there.


18 posted on 02/07/2024 8:30:21 AM PST by LizzieD
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