On 10 Jul 2022 at 13:15, Mr. Sharkey via EV wrote: > Management thought that is was discriminatory to provide free fuel to > some customers, and not others,
They're looking at it wrong. They're not giving away free fuel, they're encouraging people to use EVs. That saves the city, and its taxpayers, money in the long run. Cities and towns give tax breaks to corporations in return for the corporations locating in their city or town, and thus providng jobs and (supposedly) more taxes Leaving aside the fact that that usually doesn't work, nobody calls that discriminatory, even though it favors one corporation and not another. Last time I checked, gasoline users and ICEV drivers weren't protected minorities. Quite the opposite; they're the vast majority. EV owners? Now THERE'S a minority that should be protected from discrimination. > but *mostly* because they didn't want to compete with the other paid > charging stations in town (all two of those). Why shouldn't they compete with for-profit charging? Their crews repair the roads, competing with for-profit asphalt companies, and no one blinks an eye. They run a police force, competing with private security, and that's not a problem. Why should EV charging be different? David Roden, EVDL moderator & general lackey To reach me, don't reply to this message; I won't get it. Use my offlist address here : http://evdl.org/help/index.html#supt = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = Fear is just another word for ignorance. -- Hunter S Thompson = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = _______________________________________________ Address messages to ev@lists.evdl.org No other addresses in TO and CC fields UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/sub/index.html CONFIG: http://lists.evdl.org/options.cgi/ev-evdl.org ARCHIVE: http://www.evdl.org/archive/ INFO: http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org
