The Department of Transportation carried out the action last week to end the Biden administration's multi-billion-dollar effort to transition America away from fossil fuel-powered vehicles and to electric vehicles (EVs) as a way to combat what the former president considered man-made climate change.
"The new leadership of the Department of Transportation (U.S. DOT) has decided to review the policies underlying the implementation of the NEVI Formula Program," the order reads. "Accordingly, the current NEVI Formula Program Guidance dated June 11, 2024, and all prior versions of this guidance are rescinded."
Like Larry Behrens of Power the Future, the Trump administration is skeptical of man-made climate change and wants to cut wasteful spending.
"If EVs are the future, like we're repeatedly told by the eco-Left, then they should be able to pay their own way," Behrens reasons.
But the fact is decades and billions have been spent to prop up this agenda, and it still cannot stand on its own.
In May 2024, CBS host Margaret Brennan asked then-Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg about the $7.5 billion investment taxpayers made in 2021 that had only produced a handful of charging stations – far fewer than the half-million Biden wanted to establish by 2030.
"In order to do a charger, it's more than just plunking a small device into the ground," said Buttigieg. "There's utility work, and this is also, really, a new category of federal investment. But we've been working with each of the 50 states; every one of them is getting formula dollars to do this work."
He went on to assure Brennan that the seven or eight completed chargers were "the absolute very beginning stages of the construction to come."
Behrens, however, uses that as an example of why Trump made "exactly the right move."
"We need to be saving millions and billions in Washington – not shoveling it into schemes that don't work," he insists.
Behrens would like to see other green efforts done away with this year.
