Oil industry tries to kill EVs (again)

Some lobbying efforts by oil industry to kill the electric car (again):

• Lobbying to stop utilities from building charging stations in convenient places like shopping malls
• Lobbying congress to cut/eliminate EV subsidies
• Lobbying state lawmakers to impose fees on EVs (argument is they don't pay gasoline tax)

The charging station construction seems the most significant, since consumers will be afraid of buying an EV if they don't have a way to charge them:

• 50 utilities in 25 states have plans to build charging stations
• After oil industry lobbying, Maryland reduced its plans from building 24,000 charging stations to just 5,000

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