It was an embarrassing weekend for Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg. On Face the Nation, he was confronted with some damning facts. Despite having received seven and a half billion dollars for electric vehicle charging, the Federal Highway Administration has only produced a grand total of seven—or maybe eight—EV chargers. In three years.

That’s a far cry from the fifty thousand per year necessary to reach the administration’s goal of five hundred thousand chargers by 2030.

The waste is particularly galling given Americans’ declining interest in buying electric cars. According to an April Gallup poll, only nine percent are even “seriously considering” purchasing an EV. 

Secretary Buttigieg claims that everything is on track and just fine. Perhaps that’s true for those on the receiving end of seven and a half billion dollars of taxpayer largesse. For the rest of us, this looks like nothing more than a government green grift.