What a dumb move that will actually squander taxpayers money by increasing operating costs.

https://www.theverge.com/news/617235/the-gsa-is-shutting-down-its-ev-chargers-calling-them-not-mission-critical

by EveningCloudWatcher

17 comments

  1. This we know.

    Are you new to the idea?

    Welcome, and I’m sorry.

  2. I mean it was pretty transparently a political hack job against the public support system from the outset. Only right wing morons ever bought that it was about efficiency

  3. Guess it goes without saying that as soon as the King takes control of USPS, we’ll get nothing but ICE mail trucks.

  4. DOGE is clearly a joke. The whole government is a joke. What do we do in an energy crisis? Remove wind mills as an energy source, bring back incandescent lightbulbs which consume more energy, remove energy efficiency standards,… What do we do in the government of efficiencies? Make things less efficient of course! Ban electric cars, remove aid to other countries, remove thousands of jobs. What’s next? Government of safety which decides to undo safety standards? Maybe even the government of democracy which does? You guess it! The opposite of the name.

  5. What’s kind of funny in a way is a number of staff from National Highway Safety was just fired. That might well result in Tesla FSD not getting approved for the US.

  6. If I purchased an EV as a transport device I would plan on including solar power for my house and my own charger to suit the vehicle and not attempt to go too far. You would be surprised at how well this works for some people in Australia. Mostly wealthier people. Your average Joe still gets around in a $2000 ford or Holden ICE

  9. This is just to clear the way to install new Tesla super America chargers to charge his toy trucks.

  10. It was never about government efficiency. That was just the smokescreen. DOGE was always about dismantling US democracy, implementing Project 2025, eliminating programs that either Trump or Musk don’t like and giving Musk and his young tech-bro thugs access to all of the government’s most sensitive data. Musk is a narcissist, a liar and a Nazi. Why would any rational patriotic American trust him?

  14. its only about efficiency because they say it is, and they’ll say it over and over and over again because the GOP is hard wired to reinforce propaganda better than anything Gobels could dream of.

  16. Musk hired a bunch of computer science majors fresh out of college.

    He claims to be looking for corruption and fraud. But you need audits to do that, and there isn’t a single accountant at DOGE. (Nevermind that a young accountant isn’t qualified to lead an audit either).

    He started at the US treasury, which just disburses funds. You can’t find fraud at the various agencies at the treasury because it lacks the detailed records to actually allow you to find fraud. It’s like trying to solve a crime without ever going to the actual crime scene.

    Instead of looking for waste or ways to streamline processes and operations, they’re doing…hell, we have no idea. They destroyed USAID, got access to the IRS and treasury, and shut down some IRS projects (ironically one that would’ve made it easier to file your taxes).

    It’s a power grab by Elon and Trump. Nothing more.

    The really scary thing is it’s working.

  17. If they stop a million dollar contract from being paid, it still is a million dollars in the agency’s account. It doesn’t go back to some magic presidential account or something.

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