[jonkho]

Why is government paying subsidies to build charging stations? Must imply they are not a profitable endeavor to begin with. Otherwise entrepreneurs would be all crawling over for the opportunity. If there is no money in it, it will be left to rot.

[atlantic]

Green energies in general are heavily subsidized, whereas conventional fossil fuels are heavily taxed. Without these measures, there would be no transition to alternative power sources, because economically they are nonsensical.

[viraptor]

> whereas conventional fossil fuels are heavily taxed

Hahaha... I wish.

https://www.imf.org/en/Blogs/Articles/2023/08/24/fossil-fuel...

> fossil-fuel subsidies rose by $2 trillion over the past two years as explicit subsidies (undercharging for supply costs) more than doubled to $1.3 trillion