In my area there is a charger bank of eight “fast” charger kiosks near an Earth Fare supermarket. I pass it every day and never have seen more than one device charging there and nine out of ten times, none. The county – I assume – recently removed the original charger kiosks that had been standing there for a couple of years and replaced them with new ones. Why I have no idea – as almost no one ever seemed to be using the ones that had been there.
It is like an in-reverse manifestation of the scene in that old Kevin Costner movie, Field of Dreams. Costner’s character is a farmer who is also a baseball fan who cuts down his cornfield to make space for a regulation baseball field that he hopes will attract his Dream Team of legendary players, even though all of them are dead. Yet – ineffably – the long-gone legends appear and the game is played.
Well, they build these EV “fast” charger kiosks and almost no one ever comes. And then they build them again. They being, of course, those who have unlimited access to your money. In other words, the government.
This is exactly why they keep building what they want. As opposed to what the people who worked to earn the money that was taken from them wanted. That being to keep their money and decide for themselves how it will be spent and on whatever they want. The government’s wants come first because the government has created a legal monopoly on the use of coercion for itself. There are people who have been trained to not comprehend this, via government schools. They pretend to believe (and maybe do believe) that government has “resources” that are just sort of there to be spent on things – like EV “fast” charger kiosks – which they consider worth the expense. Probably because they intuit they’re not the ones paying it – even though of course they are. Or will be paying for some other thing that others think is worth the expense and will vote for the government to extract those resources from others, including inevitably themselves as well.
To comprehend this requires critical thinking and it is one if the chief objects of government schools to stifle this capability, so that its products do not notice common threads or deduce implications.
It thus does not occur to them to ask pertinent questions such as why gas stations are busy and EV “fast” charger kiosks aren’t? More finely, why is it that gas stations appear without them – the government – being involved, except as a nuisance? No one who drives a device is made to contribute even a penny toward the expense of building a gas station as these are built using private capital. The expense is deemed worth it because of the expected profit to be made from the investment. If it turns out that a gas station does not generate a profit, what happens?
It closes down.
Another one isn’t built because in the dwindling word in which money is spent freely by those who do not have the power to legally extract more of it from others to finance folly, folly isn’t financed endlessly. There are hard-deck limits to what is spent. Just the same as you and I are limited to spending our money – such as we’re allowed to keep – on the things we can afford to spend it on. The government operates under no such constraints and that is why one sees fields of their dreams such as the EV charger array installed adjacent to the Earth Fare in my area and probably something similar in your area, too.
It’s what happens when the government gets to spend what you earn on what they want to spend your money on.
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The whole glorified golfcart, electric bike thing is a stopgap. A wee headfake, mindfuck before they shove you into a 15 minute Goyim pen. What goes for your vehicle is coming for your house…water,sewer, electric, gas, cable…all rising, all owned by international corporations, jews…death by a 1000 cuts, just like they did to Christian children in the middle ages. The writing is on the wall. Right there for all to see, but it’s alot easier to look away and hope for a better day.
As I have said before, these EV charging stations (and EVs themselves) are POLITICAL products, not ECONOMIC products. Political products are not produced to meet market demands, nor are they subject to market constraints. Rather, they are produced based on political fiat, regardless of whether the market needs or wants them.
If EVs and charging stations were economic products, they would be built, maintained, and scrapped without much need for government support, and whenever and wherever it makes sense to do so. And as economic products, whoever has the better mousetrap succeeds.
But EVs are political products, so even if there is no market demand for them, and even if it’s abundantly clear that they’re not the better mousetrap, they still must be made.
They recently “eminent domained” (stole) half of a restaurant parking lot in my town (where to the best of my knowledge, the only eeeveees to exist are tourists), because they had a “grant” to build this fast charging station.
The amount of lighting they put on/around it probably pulls as much out of the grid as 2-3 modest homes, nobody has ever seen an eevee use it, and the only use of it ever seen has been for local politicians to get their picture in the free weekly shopper paper. Although a couple of the local “Porcine Americans” do sit there and wait to give normal people tickets for parking too close to it.
[…] Guest Post by Eric Peters […]
They Built it . . . and No One Knew
Shaun Maguire
@shaunmmaguire
Ukraine just mounted an attack that marks a turning point in the history of warfare.
Hundreds of drones were predeployed and then struck 40+ aircraft 1000+ km inside of Russia.
>$1B in damage by <$1m of drones
Critical infra[structure] is no longer safe.
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nic carter
@nic__carter
Replying to @shaunmmaguire
Trying to think through the implications of this. Asymmetric/ irregular warfare just became way more viable. Traditional organized militaries are toast.
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‘The nightmare scenario for military and homeland defense planners is intermodal shipping containers outfitted with weaponized kamikaze AI drones that can blend in on commercial transport modes (cargo ships, trucks, trains).’ — Zerohedge
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That’s why I sit at the bar and I dream of the day
That I get the means to mean what I say
I’m gonna leave this town in a cloud of dust
With a fifty cent lighter and a whiskey buzz
— Scott Miller & the Commonwealth, I Made a Mess of This Town
Morning, Jim –
I also wonder whether the Russians will amp things up over this. How could they let it slide? A number of their strategic assets have apparently been destroyed. I am surprised Keeeeeeeeeeeeeevvvv hasn’t been turned to glass by now. I would host a glass if Putin sent a Spetznas team to Keeeeeeeeeeev to slip some Polonium in Zelensky’s underwear.
They are in a pickle because they consider Ukrainians their people and try to minimize civilian casualties. They acted totally differently in Syria and Germany where they use artillery grid square by grid square and flatten everything.
Of course, on the charging stations, they go out of date with the software that they really don’t need to have. Gas stations can be out of date far as laws and regulations, but that aside, so long as the tank doesn’t leak and they pumps work, gas stations work for decades. Its just a pump, storage tank, and some tubes. A simple charging station is a transformer that could be built analog like 100+ years ago, but they don’t.
In government land, Keynesian economics is the predominant school – which makes sense, because it legitimizes their intervening in the economy.
‘Spending’, as opposed to ‘saving’, is considered to be the one ‘thing’ that drives an economy. (Yeah,it’s stupid, but hey – we’re dealing with government here!)
Consequently, having one group of workers digging holes and another filling them in again, equals to an ‘economic stimulus’. Plus, any spending, including that of borrowed funds, adds to ‘GDP’.
Hence we have ‘economic stimulus’ programs like ‘cash for clunkers’ (classic ‘broken window fallacy’) or ‘bridges to nowhere’, or even empty mega-cities, like the Communists love to build in China. Malinvestments on a great scale.
They don’t look at whether the ‘goods’ thus produced are actually wanted/needed by the public, or whether they can break even, let alone prove to be profitable. Who and how will pay the debts so incurred is also of no consideration.
This is the same recipe book the Soviet Union used. They also ‘grew’ the economy and its GDP much faster than the West. But then they went broke.
Which is what happens to such schemes.
But that will be a problem at some point in the future. When the present lot will be safely retired with generous, inflation-adjusted, taxpayer-funded pensions.
Remember, GovCo spending is figured into the overall GDP. In other words, piss away a $trillion that was created out of thin air and you just added $1T to the overall GDP.
Talk about shenanigans.
Eric wrote, “To comprehend this requires critical thinking and it is one if the chief objects of government schools to stifle this capability…”
More accurate than you know.
True Story
In the mid-90’s I attended a school forum touting the New Curriculum for my kids’ schools. A Gladys Kravitz type from the “Central Office”, who had a PhD in Education was explaining to this rural crowd the details of this new fangled system. She stated, “Let me give you an example of critical thinking. You are on a farm and there are 24 chicken legs. How many chickens are there?” A man in overalls and pig poop on his boots excitedly stated, “Twelve”. He seemed proud that he gave the answer first. The “doctor” whipped around and said, “NO! You don’t know how many one-legged and three-legged chickens there are.” He slumped into his seat quite embarrassed.
I’m not making this up. No one could. These people make me want to strangle their pencil necks.
‘It’s what happens when the government gets to spend what you earn on what they want to spend your money on.’ — eric
Such as starting WW III. In this photo, the homosexual ‘bottom’ Lindsey Graham and neocon wrecker ‘Richard Blumenthal’ pose with the Poison Dwarf of Kyiiiiiiiiiv:
https://tinyurl.com/49dz2ktw
Last year they gave Z-man about $75 billion to poke the Russian bear. Over the weekend, Z-man’s state terrorists destroyed Russian bombers, blew up bridges, and crashed a passenger train.
What will the bear do? If you see a blinding flash in the east, put your head between your legs and hide under your desk. Soon Big Gov may not exist anymore … or us either. 🙁
What is really going on with all these empty charger stations is the looting of public funds by looney leftie, anti-freedom, pro-state, communistic, socialistic, uppercrust elitist, I am your god Climate hustlers. Those who install these charging stations are making bank – it’s good business for them while we get screwed.
They are taking public monies to build their pie-in-the-sky vision of electric everything to fight climate change – which is a leftist religious like belief system sustained by inner feelings of hatred for wealth and gasoline powered automobiles. No matter their facts are off and wrong, and that CO2 is not causing runaway warming – what matters to them is their feelings which create a superior attitude that they are right because it is validated by their inner emotions that they can not control (nor can they scientifically prove).
So public monies are being mis-allocated by lunatic leftist policies with no basis in reality. Charger stations are built and no one comes, I also see these empty charger stations all over southern Oregon. I would note no government agency spent monies to promote gasoline filling stations, that all happened by market forces and need. If anything, stupid Leftist loons kept gasoline stations from being built where the market wanted them (but not where we wanted them) because they use municipal law to create their utopia vision of market separated from housing. Municipalities make maps where things can be built – and those making those decisions have never had a real job.
If you go to southern California, you see sprawling bedroom communities with no stores. This can only happen by law. In the real world people build what they need to live, they do not just build homes, but stores nearby in convenient locations (usually walking distance) in their communities. The only way to sustain such visions is by cheap transportation, because to get a stick of butter you gotta drive 20 blocks to get to the food district.
These charger stations in the Target parking lot are not just an eyesore taking up parking spots for gasoline cars, they made owning a Tesla device a privilege as they get special handicap spot near the entrance because they made the “right” socially acceptable choice of buying a car which saves the planet. The Left also promotes homelessness and poverty – and those people are now actively cutting the charging cords to get the copper – so they can buy meth. The same hoodlums steal the catalytic converters in broad daylight from Prius hybrids.
Tesla owners are not saving the planet, sorry to tell ya. What is really going on is grand theft US Treasury, and we conspiracy theorists said it and now it was proved by DOGE, whole fake government agencies like USAID were looting the public treasury. Note how no one has been arrested or charged for stealing social security funds. I made the point of saying over and over where were all these Ukrainian refugees getting their monies to move here and get free rent. How was it possible for foreigners to get Social Security checks when they have no SS number and never paid a dime into the system.
Not one government crook was arrested. It is coming to a head, BTW, I found this chart most interesting, based on Credit Default Swaps, US Treasury debt is already in junk status:
https://i.imgur.com/yCkehRK.jpeg
Trump is no savior, he is just another big IMMORAL deficit spender, who has already increased government spending exceeding DOGE savings. Elon will for sure notice and quit.
Its looting alright. Plus trendy technocrats and Jewish lawyers all drive PHEV’s now, so they can park in those privileged spaces and pretend to be charging but in reality only be topping off. Jews cutting to the front of the line, its as old as the bible.
Moderna Built it . . . and No One Comes
‘Moderna said in a Saturday morning X post that the mNEXSPIKE (mRNA-1283) vaccine [sic] should be available in the U.S. in time for the 2025-26 respiratory virus season.
‘CEO Stéphane Bancel noted, “COVID-19 remains a serious public health threat, with more than 47,000 Americans dyyyyying from the virus last year alone.”
‘Moderna’s social media team disabled comments on the post. Bottom line – people are furious:
‘X user KAS14599753: “When your products are so safe and effective, you turn off the comments.”
https://tinyurl.com/bdh2uyw5
NEXSPIKE literally means lethal spike proteins that scrape your blood vessels raw till you clot up and die.
NEXSPIKE … or rat poison? ‘One leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The other, to total extinction.’ — Woody Allen
COVID-19 virus has never been scientifically proven, which means you can assign deaths to it as causal.
Coumadin is a blood thinner, prevents clotting, the blood flows through the arteries and veins with a little bit of help for Warfarin (Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation) – arin.
Coumadin is actually a low dose of rat poison.
I used a 5 gallon bucket of rat poison pellets to kill off rats.
Inhibits Vitamin K, the rat’s blood disintegrates. The thing is dead. Then rats eventually became resistant.
Read all about it:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK559896/
Thank God that I live in a rural Florida county where the number of electric cars can be counted on the fingers of one hand. The pucker factor for these rich EV-driving goons on an interstate trip, especially on the sparsely populated parts of I-10 between Tallahassee and Jacksonville, has got to be massive since there are few charging stations to be had.
When one thinks of the billions of “federal” dollars forcefully taken from taxpayers and wasted on these green schemes such as government-built EV charging stations, it makes one, to paraphrase ML Menken, want to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.
I’m just sick of it. We rented a Toyota Crown for a trip and the car’s nanny systems’ constant badgering for saaaaaaaaaaaaaafety drove me insane.
“Keep your eyes on the road,” it said when the camera couldn’t see the driver’s eyes.
“Sit up in your seat” it said. The seatbelt alarm made me think the car was going to self-destruct.
I’ve never been more happy to drop off a rental car. Since all modern cars are going that way, I guess I just need to keep my vehicles on the road!
Yep. The wife told me that we could rent a car to take a long trip. Nope. New cars have all of that safety crap built in. It’s hard as hell to disable if you can even do it. Will change the oil and drive ourselves. Scotty Kilmer says that highway driving is 1/10th of city driving. Well, for me, 1/5th. I drive 80 on the highway as a rule. He goes 50.
We recently rented a car in Pensacola Florida. It was a three week rental for an economy car. We arrived at the airport near closing and they had given away our reservation. Tried to get us to take a crap EV. Hard no on that. The only ICE vehicle left was a Volvo XC ninety. First time I’d ever driven a Volvo. Upgraded us at no extra charge. How cool was that?
By the second day I hated the thing. If my eyes toggled toward the side of the road, checking out some females form, it felt like the car was a speedboat, riding atop a wave, then slipping into a trough before returning control of the wheel. When I failed to signal, as I often do when no one is around, the wheel and front end shook like it was about to fly apart, the faster you were going, the more it shook. Shutting off the ASS and other assist features never stayed off for long. Glitchey Pandora, sluggish transmission, the beeping when I sped, the increasing alarm over not clicking for safety, all of it, purely tyrannical Bullshit. The safest car in the world, my ass. All the distractions are a huge safety hazard, not a help. Could be a decent car if they made it without all the nurse Ratchet crap..
I’m sure my insurance company is thrilled with all the new data points upon which they’ll try and raise my rates.
Typical State WA government – who hoo look what we installed! Then it fails and no plan to fix it. Looking at the comments it’s been two years plus of “broken”.
https://www.plugshare.com/location/188582
Shiny and new, no cables – chop chop.
I don’t know where PSE got the money for this boondoggle but I’m convinced it’s part of our rising elec rates. Also the cost and time involved, what grifting heaven for the contractors! $500k and a year to build?
https://www.kiro7.com/news/crime-law/vandals-cut-steal-newly-installed-ev-charging-station-cables-second-time-month/U6XFASVKX5GF7C6HQE4WM3EPAA/
‘The county – I assume – recently removed the original charger kiosks and replaced them.’ — eric
Likely you would find that federal ‘green energy’ funding was behind these charger kiosks, regardless of who is the local administrator.
‘People pretend to believe that government has “resources” that are just sort of there to be spent on things.’
This week, wearing my non-profit hat, I’m applying for a $218,000 grant to design a new trailhead which people will actually use for recreation. Over $8 million of fedgov funds already are appropriated to be distributed statewide. If we don’t grab it, Prescott or Flagstaff or somebody else will.
Hypocritical? Not necessarily. As you know, I’ve been railing against the Big, Butt-Ugly Bill, which guarantees $2 trillion deficits forevermore. But as long as the fedgov keeps air-dropping pallets of stolen, borrowed greenbacks, I’m gonna back up the truck and shovel in that fiat scrip till my frickin’ hands bleed.
A gas pump takes up a portion of real estate, often quite expensive due to location. The owner expects a certain turnover per hour to maintain margins. Buc-ee’s has hundreds of gas pumps at each location. Imagine if they tried to do that with EV chargers. No way, no matter how you look at it. Buc-ee’s, the cartoonishly oversized convenience store, expects people to go inside and look around so more pumps mean they get the best of both worlds: Quick access to fill up while still getting people into the shop. So if the average Buc-ee’s stop is 20 minutes, similar to a “fast charger,” tying up a charging pylon for that amount of time (at a minimum, imagine waiting to charge a dead F150 Lightning) will require land use the size of a Buc-ee’s for just the charging pylons. And 150 vehicles charging at the same time? Better have a nuclear submarine docked next to the store to provide the power needed. And not only that but what if you don’t have a good brisket recipe so no one wants your sandwiches?
https://youtu.be/9ZCuT7fhqPA
Oh, but you’ll charge it every day at home, or work, or at the grocery store. OK, sure, so everywhere you park a car will be a charging pylon. Like charging my phone, I have a charging pad on my desk, nightstand and car. I can also plug into a number of other places if I bring everything. And 110V outlets are pretty much everywhere, and no one really cares if you consume a few watts to recharge your phone. And the cost was just some cables and adapters, not a 220V installation requiring sign-off by government, landowners and utilities, three entities not exactly known for their quick reaction time.
Yup, been saying this for years. The I95 corridor through NJ-NY-CT has many rest stops. The lines at the gas pumps are usually pretty long during popular travel times. And this with 5-8min. refueling times. There is no way in hell this works with EV’s, with extended charge times, limited real estate and amount of power required to say do 20-30 cars at the same time.
Something else that government wishes to do is seize existing farm land where REAL food is grown and turn them into wind or solar farms, the excuse being cliiiiiiiiimate change. Billionaires such as Bill Gates who want everyone (except themselves of course) to eat lab grown food also buy up existing farms and turn them into laboratories for making frankenfood.
As for this demented EV push, I’m more convinced than ever that the real goal (among others) is for ONLY the uber wealthy to even be able to buy a car, as EVs that are available in the U.S. are very expensive compared to gas vehicles, though even gas vehicles have gone up in price the past few years. I’m not aware of ANY new vehicles in the country now that are less than $20,000.
[ I’m not aware of ANY new vehicles in the country now that are less than $20,000]- John
That’s because Government taxed you 100% more just since 1997. So your $20,000 cheapie now cost you $20,000 inflation that few ever think about.
And I suppose most never give it a thought but they’ll fight tooth and glove over being shorted 25 cents in change. Hurray for our schools! They even made a word up for it. Dyscalculia.
Ken,
Not only that, but over the past 30 years, the federal government has also added NUMEROUS rules & standards that automobile manufacturers must comply with, such as saaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaafety and fuel economy. But it still seems to me that the government, along with other “Western governments”, want to make it where ONLY uber wealthy elitists can even afford an automobile, while claiming to be “Looking out for _____”.
The green agenda is at its core communist. After the collapse of the USSR the communists suddenly became environmentalists across the west. They are also known as watermelons because they are green on the outside and red on the inside, but they remained just us subversive.
The push to force the public to suffer and pay for EV implementation is in alignment with Judeo-Communist goals, as Eric describes in this article. People have been made dependent on the state for a purpose. Communism in Russia, Cambodia, Spain or Cuba did not have a happy ending for the true citizens of those countries.
Germany is great proof that watermelon states don’t care about the environment (or the people). They tore down their Germany’s Nukes and replaced them with bird choppers. When Nato blew up the Nordstream pipeline it created an environmental catastrophe on the scale of an oil spill. Not a peep from the German greens or any other. After 3 years of war in Ukraine greens across the west, but especially Germany, demand more war which means more environmental destruction and more massive releases of millions of toxic compounds into the environment, which includes depleted uranium. No nukes for Germany = nuclear waste littered across Ukraine. Where are the greens? They are obsessing about getting more money and more toxic weapons to Zelensky.
But it is the shysters that are really pushing these useless regulations that become eternal fountains of frivolous law suits, just like handy cap parking before them. Shakespeare called him Shyster for a reason, and these lying lawyers are circling overhead waiting to sink their beaks into another source of goy wealth to plunder.
The green agenda is indeed communistic and it is sustained by this HUGE lie that man made carbon emissions is causing runaway warming.
https://www.serendipity.li/climate/hieb/greenhouse_data.html
Yeah. Actually the green agenda with its communist origins actually began in 1960 with Rachel Carlson’s Silent Spring. My dad used to rail about her and her bullshit. I think that she was against bug spray or something like that.
A major milestone for these ass hats was passage and enactment of the Clean Air Act of 1970, by the Nixon administration and congres. It created the EPA bureaucracy, which has continued for 55 years, unabated.
In the Middle 1960’s Ralph Nader wrote Unsafe at Any Speed where he discussed automakers “Power to Pullute.”
In the middle 1970s, leftist luminaires such as Barry Commoner wrote the “Closing Circle” which was basically 300 page ant-automobile diatribe.
By then, the automobile was becoming recognized by most as something that caused death, injury, wasted resources and manifested inestimable sorrow to those who drove them, even by the people who were all too willing to put in the keys and drive to their destination. The left wing average american (more numerous than they will admit, acted like Al Gore when it came to hypocrisy.
Our changed world resulted from our past actions decades ago.
All the chargers in our area are empty too. The 4 at our local Whole Foods were never all full actually broke a few months back and were recently fixed but I only ever see one car there. I think most EV owners charge their car in their driveway. At least in our neighborhood. I was walking my dog past one of the neighbors who was plugging her ev in and overheard her saying she wanted to get a level two charger installed. There are households with two evs and their daily routine seems to be to get one charged while the other sits. Etc. that way one is always charged. Of course we live in CA so don’t deal with cold winters.