How long do you think it will be before some punks start tearing these charging stations up?
Here in Manassas Virginia we also got the “free” charging stations but it cost the city $15,000 for installaion.
We vave ONE Chevy Volt.
“Electric Charging Stations – 5 were deployed in the City of Manassas – Provided free to the City @ $5,000 a piece, $25,000 total
Installation costs have run in total $15,000”
Question - is the electricity provided free of charge by these charging stations? Or does the car owner have to pay for it? If the electricity is free, that is even more cost to the taxpayers.
Who pays for the electricity for charging these monstrosities? I say if you have the money to buy one of the glorified golf carts AND get $7500 from the government for doing so, you ought to be paying at least for the electricity you are using to charge them if not a portion of the cost of the charger as well. The rest of us when we pull into a gas station have to pay for our $5/gallon Obama gas and aren’t getting any free ride.
How long do you think it will be before some punks start tearing these charging stations up?
I know George and I’m not surprised he caught this. Good Job! BUT he forgot to add in all the taxpayer subsidies and incentives to the cost of the 80 cars (7.5k each?). Also does that 5k per include install costs?
Awww! You beat me to it!
Thank you, Mayor Julian Castro, Obama lover, son of a vitriolic latina community organizer, for dragging what had become a fairly responsible city government back into the Democratic bog it hauled itself out of.
San Antonio: conservative populace led by flaming progressive p-c types. Makes me nuts.
It would be cheaper to give everyone a horse. They can do 20 miles in 2 hours, and as bonus they could create extra government-union jobs for people to cleanup all the horse shit.
Gas stations are ridiculously expensive as well. If you break them down by how many pumps they have, a new station is probably $100k a pump. If you buy a used station, maybe $50k a pump.
They almost never work and some cases let the remaining air out of your tire.
(Can't say service station any longer, what are those?)
Here’s what I would do - invest in cars that run on natural gas - a resource we have something like 400 years supply of. Then drill like hell for NG, build all the needed pipelines, and problem solved. Cars that run on NG have been around forever and to my understanding are trivially different from gasoline powered cars. Certainly not different enough that the engineering is all that complicated. I rode in a NG powered taxicab in Canada in 1990 or thereabouts.
The wasteful spending in the USA continues to bury us in debt. We are deep, and will continue to get deeper and deeper, into socialism. This story about these electric charging stations is just one of millions that make up a humongous monster called Socialism. We have been duped by politicians for years and I don’t see how we can get out of it. And EARMARKS are the root of it.