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From Breitbart: CLAIM: “Creating hundreds of thousands of jobs in clean energy for American workers, including the IBEW installing 500,000—500,000—charging stations all across America.”
VERDICT: MOSTLY FALSE. They built eight, as of May.
President Joe Biden claimed credit Monday night for building 500,000 electric vehicle (EV) charging stations, as part of the bipartisan infrastructure bill. The reality is that as of May 2024, two and-a-half years after the bill was passed, only eight of the charging stations had been built.
As Breitbart News recently noted:
[Vice President Kamala] Harris has a track record against which to measure her promise [of 3 million additional houses in four years], and it is the failure of the Biden-Harris administration to build the electric vehicle (EV) charging stations that it promised to build under the infrastructure bill of 2021. at a cost of $7.5 billion. The goal was 500,000; two-and-a-half years later, as of May 2024, only eight EV stations had been built.
WATCH:
Joe Biden brags about installing EV chargers:
REALITY: Despite spending $7.5B, only 8 charging stations have been built. pic.twitter.com/mkBAsHM3fz
— Conservative War Machine (@WarMachineRR) August 20, 2024
Breitbart’s Joel Pollak pointed out, “Biden just bragged about installing 500,000 EV charging stations. In reality, they built 8. In 3 years.”
Biden just bragged about installing 500,000 EV charging stations. In reality, they built 8. In 3 years.
— Joel Pollak (@joelpollak) August 20, 2024
In a CBS News’ Face the Nation interview in May, Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg was forced to explain why only eight of the promised EV stations had been built with the $7.5 billion tax-payer-funded investment.
WATCH:
Pete Buttigieg has a VERY tough time trying to explain why “only 7 or 8 [electric vehicle] charging stations have been produced with the $7.5 BILLION investment that taxpayers made back in 2021” pic.twitter.com/ajxWUl69R1
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) May 26, 2024
Fox News contributor Karl Rove called out Biden for lying about the number of charging stations he has built.
WATCH: Fox’s @KarlRove calls out Joe Biden for lying about building 500,000 electric vehicle chargers… when actually only EIGHT were built pic.twitter.com/aNPKcWe9dw
— TV News Now (@TVNewsNow) August 20, 2024
Three years ago, vacationer Kenny Webster noted in a social media post that no one was using the EV chargers already installed.
I’m at a 5 star beach resort during 4th of July weekend. There are hundreds of upper income guests staying here & nobody is using the electric vehicle charging stations. If rich people aren’t using these things (and neither are poor people) then who is Biden building them for? pic.twitter.com/EXX9negOTt
— Kenny Webster (@KennethRWebster) July 3, 2021
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