NO MEANS NO

11-26-2024

NO MEANS NO

Not only do democrats not get it, but they don’t know the meaning of “NO”!

The Biden administration has decreed that Americans will be required to drive electric vehicles by the year 2035 and California is going one further by banning the sale of new gasoline powered vehicles by that same year. Thus far the federal government has spent $$xB$$ on building charging stations nationwide and have succeeded in completing 4 such stations nationwide.

Does anybody see a problem?

The federal government is notorious for backing failed ideas, like Solar and/or Wind power generators that dot the landscape of our nation and way too many are non-operational (not spinning in the wind). Not to mention they cost in excess of 1M$ each.

There is Amtrak which has been a huge waste of federal dollars because it doesn’t blanket America with reliable passenger rail service. It might be better to hitch a ride on a freight train?

How about the US Postal Service? How much money is wasted on outdated equipment, non-dedicated employees who can’t be fired? The price of postage stamps seems to be rising higher than my thermometer every year or so.

With Fed Ex, UPS, Amazon, Google, Walmart and every other package delivery service, maybe someone out to suggest they incorporate the USPS into each of those?

Now back to those electric vehicle charging stations. Why is the federal government contracting charging stations anyway?  Is the federal government now building electric vehicles (I mean besides bailing automakers out when it goes over their own heads?

Why is private industry not build charging stations for their own vehicles? Remember Tesla?

Why not have a single charging station design that includes usage from ALL electric vehicles?

When Thomas Edison invented electricity, the light bulb or the telephone (one or all of those) did he then have to invent the apparatus for connecting those things together? Did he have to invent that wall-thingy phone or the rotary dial phone? How about the pushbutton phone? Did he have to come back to invent pagers, mobile phones or the new iPhone 16? No, No, No and NO!

If a store chain wants to place electric charging stations at every one of their stores it is not the responsibility of our federal government to build them.

If Johnny wants to buy a new electric vehicle than Johnny ought to pay to have one installed in his home, at his business or out on Uncle Bob’s farm or wherever he wants to pay for it.

It is not the job of the federal government to dictate what type, kind, color or make of vehicle that anyone MUST drive. It is the job of the federal government to keep us safe while and if we drive our vehicles on the highways and byways of America. – RTM