Infrastructure Legislation

I don't tend to agree with Senator Capito (R-WV) on anything, but there are a few things she recently said about Green Energy infrastructure legislation (particularly for e-cars) which I also believe. It will be incremental and it should be done in cooperation with companies which are involved in the energy and transportation industries. We may disagree on details, but these big picture ideas make sense to me.

We have already seen Tesla building charging stations for its car owners. I don't know how they arrange for the electrical power supplies. But, that beginning can be improved by having government providing subsidies or some kind of assistance to anyone wanting to build charging
stations -- only the ones which can be used by any of the EV cars being made. There's no sense in building chargers which will only work with one kind of car or truck.

There are a lot of gasoline/diesel stations across America and it took a long time for them to be built. We want the EV cars to come along much faster since we already have roads for them and we have a pressing need to depart from fossil fuels. So, incentives of some kind for the construction of charging stations of a certain number per year and of a certain standard (to charge all vehicles) is easily done and can be run by the Department of Transportation, with safety standards designed by
the Department of Energy. There are existing industry standards and they should probably be continued, but agreements among the transportation manufacturers needs to be upheld, as we do with liquid fueling stations for gasoline and diesel.