Fossil Fuel Lobby Cashes in on Biden’s $7.5 Billion for EV Chargers

The fossil fuel industry is lobbying to use the $7.5 billion to build electric vehicle (EV) charging stations that President Joe Biden authorized in the Inflation Control Act to build charging stations at existing gas station locations. There is.

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More than half of the charging stations built so far under the bipartisan Infrastructure Act of 2021 will be located at truck stops and gas stations, according to data provided exclusively to E&E News by EV data consultancy EVAdoption. ing. In essence, this legislation’s $7.5 billion pot for charging is reinforcing the very fossil fuel infrastructure that is likely to be forgotten in the EV era.

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This subsidy is important because gas stations are located on the very land where the federal government wants to build the charging backbone: at 50-mile intervals along interstates and within a mile of a freeway exit. You can get an advantage with the first wave of gold.

But that’s not the only reason. Lobbyists for the service station industry have been working behind the scenes to tilt the rules in their favor.

Environmental groups have not criticized the fossil fuel industry for lobbying for a share of the profits. Because they’re happy to see EV stations being built. However, none have been built before the end of 2023, and very little has been built since then.