Why is it ridiculous? The government didn't set up petrol stations - they were always private everywhere on the planet: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filling_s

Why is it ridiculous? The government didn't set up petrol stations - they were always private everywhere on the planet: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filling_station#History https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filling_station#History The entire EV market is already propped by governments and this has taken us to a place of extremely heavy, extremely battery-heavy, performance-oriented vehicles. That is the complete opposite of what an EV vehicle that is good for the environment would be. We should not be incentivizing this further by encouraging government to now subsidize a charging network.