Senator Manchin (D-WV) is opposed to government subsidies for building electric charging stations for EVs, because …<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m very reluctant to go down the path of electric vehicles,\u201d Manchin said at the conference. \u201cI\u2019m old enough to remember standing in line in 1974 trying to buy gas.\u201d He added he doesn\u2019t want to wait in line \u201cfor a battery for my vehicle, because we\u2019re now dependent on a foreign supply chain.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve read history, and I remember Henry Ford inventing the Model-T,\u201d Manchin also said, \u201cbut I sure as hell don\u2019t remember the U.S. government building filling stations \u2014 the market did that.\u201d [WaPo<\/strong><\/a>]<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Skipping both obvious and nuanced arguments, such as the observation that the market is neither prescient nor wise, let’s just go to what the writer, Gary Sargent, forgot, and that’s the billions in subsidies provided to the fossil fuel industries over the decades. By enabling the extraction and refinement activities, along with applications, it’s not hard to deduce:<\/p>\n
That’s what built the filling stations<\/strong>.<\/p>\n
Manchin’s exercising a deeply dishonest argument.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Senator Manchin (D-WV) is opposed to government subsidies for building electric charging stations for EVs, because … \u201cI\u2019m very reluctant to go down the path of electric vehicles,\u201d Manchin said at the conference. \u201cI\u2019m old enough to remember standing in line in 1974 trying to buy gas.\u201d He added he \u2026 Continue reading