This is how government will close down the use of cars.
First, they will mandate you buy an expensive EV. They you will be forced to use government charging stations. But, the cost of electricity is high, so they price of energy will be MORE than the price of gas. Then, if you are still rich enough to drive, they will limit the amount of charging of your EV. In that way, that driving trip around California will be impossible.
“City leaders, including San Francisco Supervisor Rafael Mandelman, San Francisco Municipal Transportation Authority Director Jeffrey Tumlin and San Francisco Environment Department Director Tyrone Jue, and a coalition of electric-vehicle advocates gathered Tuesday on the steps of City Hall to announce their plan to install 5,000 curbside electric-vehicle chargers citywide by 2030.
That means government will have a monopoly on energy for cars. Today you can buy at Shell, ARCO, chevron or other gas providers—you have a choice. In other words, they are taking your tax dollars to create a monopoly to deprive you of high cost energy to drive your EV. This is an even big scam than the train to nowhere.
Did I mention that San Fran has a deficit approaching one billion dollars—where will this money come from?
The City wants to add thousands of EV chargers by 2030
By Greg Wong, SF Examiner, /19/24 https://www.sfexaminer.com/news/climate/the-city-wants-to-add-thousands-of-ev-chargers-by-2030/article_58d929c2-e63d-11ee-9d67-6f47dc4d5618.html
The City hopes to eliminate one of San Franciscans’ biggest barriers towards buying an electric vehicle with plans to install thousands of curbside chargers by the end of the decade.
City leaders, including San Francisco Supervisor Rafael Mandelman, San Francisco Municipal Transportation Authority Director Jeffrey Tumlin and San Francisco Environment Department Director Tyrone Jue, and a coalition of electric-vehicle advocates gathered Tuesday on the steps of City Hall to announce their plan to install 5,000 curbside electric-vehicle chargers citywide by 2030.
Those efforts will start with a pilot program in several San Francisco neighborhoods next year, though officials didn’t specify exactly which areas those will be.
“We have to take action to expand our public EV-charging infrastructure and make EV ownership more accessible and practical for all San Franciscans,” Mandelman said. “Our curbside EV charging program is not just about installing charging stations. It’s about creating a more equitable and sustainable transportation ecosystem.”
There were more than 28,000 zero-emissions vehicles on the road in The City in 2022, according to the most recent state data. That amounted to nearly 7% of all light-duty vehicles in San Francisco, which is higher than the statewide share (about 4%).
But despite the growing proliferation of such cars, The City’s current options to charge electric vehicles are limited — especially for low-income San Franciscans or those who don’t own garages.
Residents can either install chargers inside their homes, most practically inside a garage — the cheaper option — or plug in their vehicles at one of San Francisco’s nearly 1,200 public charging stations, according to city data. The latter is a less convenient alternative.
But for a large chunk of residents, home chargers aren’t viable because about 70% of the population lives in multifamily homes, many of which don’t have garages. In addition, many homes’ infrastructure doesn’t support electric-vehicle chargers, and lower-income neighborhoods lack access to public charging stations.
EV owners without garages are forced to find creative workarounds to charge their vehicles at home, which has been documented to include extending cords from their residences across the sidewalks to their cars parked on the street. But it’s illegal to block sidewalks in The City, and the cords can be hazardous to pedestrians walking by.
The City leaders who spoke Tuesday said they hope the initiative removes one of the tallest hurdles for San Franciscans purchasing zero-emission vehicles — demand for electric vehicles in San Francisco is triple the national average, Mandelman said — and pushes The City closer to its ambitious climate goals. San Francisco is aiming for 25% of all registered vehicles in San Francisco to be electric by 2030 and net zero greenhouse-gas emissions by 2040.
“It’s about making meaningful progress toward our climate and environmental objectives while also improving the life of our residents,” Mandelman said.
Transportation represents the biggest source of greenhouse-gas emissions in the state and in The City, said Tumlin, the SFMTA director. Seventy percent of California’s emissions originate from privately owned cars and trucks, according to the California Legislative Analyst’s Office.
While environmentalists say the most efficient transit options for San Francisco are to use public transportation, walk or bike, they acknowledge that owning a car is a must for many residents.
Similar curbside-charging programs have been implemented in New York City, Los Angeles and Seattle, but it’s still unclear what San Francisco’s will look like.
That’s part of what will be determined in phase one of an ongoing three-step plan, in which the SFMTA is studying the best and most efficient way to operate and maintain chargers on The City’s streets.
“This study will include focus groups and collect valuable community input, and it will shape the recommendations for the proposal pilot program, including key components, cost estimates and parameters needed to implement the program starting in 2025,” said Sarah Ching-Ting Wan of the San Francisco Environment Department.
