Summary

The General Services Administration (GSA) is removing all EV chargers from federal properties, citing that they are “not mission-critical.”

The move aligns with Trump’s broader rollback of green energy initiatives, including efforts to override California’s EV mandates.

The GSA will also phase out electric vehicles purchased under the Biden administration. Critics see this as part of a broader GOP effort against clean energy.

The decision comes as Trump also pauses $3 billion in public EV charger funding.

  • CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    1 day ago

    Here’s the thing very few liberals will understand: Republicans do this performative dance to waste government money and remove things like EV chargers and solar panels because, and I cannot emphasize this enough…

    it appeases and even excites their base.

    “Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.”

    Doing shit like this shows their base that their team is in charge. That’s it. They could have let them stay in and their base wouldn’t have been the wiser. But doing it shows them that their team won.

    Liberals don’t have a similar signal. Hell, I didn’t even know the GSA installed them. Not only that but liberals don’t care as much to “win” like this.

    We just want to survive whereas conservatives want to oppress.

    That’s the difference.