The Biden/Harris Administration announced today that the City of Phoenix will receive a $15 million from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law’s Charging and Fueling Infrastructure Discretionary Grant Program, to increase the number of Electric Vehicle (EV)Charging Stations to 150 across the nation’s fifth largest city.
According to a press release from Arizona Senator Mark Kelly, 26 of the EV Charging stations are multi-modal. Ten are portable solar-powered charging stations.
Phoenix has a goal of accommodating 280,000 electric vehicles by 2030. These 150 EV charging stations will greatly assist with that.
Arizona’s two Senators, Phoenix area Representatives, and Phoenix Mayor Kate Gallego offered their comments on the grant announcement in the Kelly press release.
Senator Kelly said:
“This investment will create good-paying jobs, and help Phoenix improve regional air quality, while making electric vehicles a more affordable and viable option for Arizona families and businesses. The Bipartisan Infrastructure Law continues to deliver critical resources that strengthen our economy and build a more sustainable future for our state.”
Senator Ruben Gallego stated:
“Once again, our Bipartisan Infrastructure Law is delivering for Arizona. Arizona is already a leader in clean energy production and electric vehicle manufacturing and today’s funding announcement will allow us to continue to grow these industries while helping Arizonans get where they need to go.”
Representative and former Phoenix Mayor Greg Stanton offered:
“Arizona’s EV sales have skyrocketed since Congress passed our Inflation Reduction Act. It’s essential that our EV charging infrastructure keeps up with Arizonans’ growing demand for clean, reliable transportation. This latest round of funding under our Bipartisan Infrastructure Law will bring new EV charging stations to Ahwatukee Foothills and all of Phoenix.”
Representative and former Phoenix Councilwoman/Vice Mayor Yassamin Ansari commented:
“From hotter and hotter summers to drought and wildfires, Phoenix families feel the effects of climate change every day—this new funding will invest in our city’s electric charging infrastructure, help modernize our grid and start the green transition for our state. Proud to have worked on this issue as a City Councilwoman and as Vice Mayor, and now to bring things across the finish line as a Congresswoman!”
Mayor Gallego said:
“I am grateful to the Biden administration and our Congressional leaders for helping secure this transformative award that will make Phoenix an even better place to live, work, and visit. As we build a more sustainable and interconnected city, new electric charging capabilities will go a long way toward reducing our emissions from transportation and improving air quality. I’m excited to get to work implementing this grant that will benefit the residents of Phoenix for decades to come.”
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Most of their 280,000 vehicles will be out-of-state drivers passing through. I have owned an electric vehicle for six years and rarely charge my car at public chargers. Why would I pay a premium price when I can charge at home overnight at a super cheap off-peak rate?
This is about taxpayer money being spent on affluent people who own expensive electric cars. But don’t worry, DEI provisions require chargers in poor minority neighborhoods, where few people own electric cars and those that do, charge them at home overnight.
This program is a boondoggle and virtue signaling joke.
@ Sen. Kavanagh –
So are you opposed to something that, in your words, benefits affluent folks more than it helps the poor?
If your opposition is authentic, such would make you an outlier among Republicans.
Given your enthusiastic and shameless support for school vouchers, “authentic” probably won’t be used to describe you.
Ever.
John, my friend, let’s take a moment to learn about Capitalism in a consumer driven economy, aka “The United States of America”.
When personal computers first came out, they cost 2 thousand dollars or more, and that’s in 1970’s dollars, and they were huge.
Only the elite could afford them, and all they did back then was type letters and make lists.
Monochrome screens! Just green letters! No Kavanagh’s Korner video!
Now you can get a laptop filled with more computing power than the entire world had way back when you were young.
And they cost just a few hundred dollars.
And now you have all that power and more in your pocket!
Hooray for American Capitalism!
FYI, most of the Silicon Valley companies who created the phone/PC you posted this from were started with….sit down for this one…government funding!
Dirty little secret about those “self made tech giants”. LOL!
Same goes for TV’s, microwave ovens, etc., etc.. Early adopters pay more, then thanks to mass production, costs come down.
So if you don’t like American Capitalism, just say so, no need to bring DEI into a discussion about cars.
That’s just weird, dude.
Now, maybe if you conflated the designated hitter rule with everyone gets a trophy, you’d be making at least a little sense.
Not good sense, but some sense.
But it just seems to be a continuation of your weird obsession with the state of other men’s weiners.
Oh, hey, you should probably want those affluent folks coming here, right? Tourism is good for the economy.
Unlike your policies, which drive dollars and jobs away from our state.
Now, a boondoggle would be more like what you do, when you give away tax breaks to your rich donors who already have lots and lots of money and expect the rest of us to make up the difference.
See, you yourself use the government to pick winners and losers, and support business.
I hope this little lesson helps you understand why you’re a clueless idiot.
“I hope this little lesson helps you understand why you’re a clueless idiot”
The incomparable John Cleese sums it up perfectly:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvVPdyYeaQU&ab_channel=RobertGrimsby
In Economics Lessons For KKKavanagh Lesson Two, we’ll consider what would have happened if the government had told Henry Ford to go pound sand instead of building roads for the Model T.
What a different world we’d be in without the government creating the automobile economy.
We’d all be commuting to work Amish style in horse drawn carriages, getting Pony Cups for our “motors” at the drive through, with Buggy-Nuts hanging off the back.
Could you please explain which GOP members voted in favor?
None of Arizona’s Republicans at the time supported the measure?
Thought so.. even though “bi-partisan. thanks for confirming.
Pat