A woman stopped for gas in Louisiana when she noticed a full charging station for electric vehicles across the street — but it was the long line of Teslas waiting for a turn that stood out to her.
“That is priceless,” Candace London Metz said in a video posted on Facebook. “Oh! It’s a double row now! Double row! Double row of people waiting to charge. No thanks. I’ll keep to my $5 gallon gas.”
Metz said she wondered why there was such a backup, so she pulled over and asked one man who was charging.
“He said normally 30 [minutes,] but these stations are running slow due to demand, so it’s over an hour per car,” Metz wrote in her post, which has gone viral with 90,000 shares.
Metz noted the number of cars and the time it would take to work through such a line.
“Hope those people have food and clothes. They may not make dinner,” she said.
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The video sparked a large debate, tallying 7,900 comments. Topics ranged from the high cost of electric vehicles, the inconveniences of charging, and the potential for fights to break out at charging stations depending on the length certain people choose to use a charging port.
“Before you know it, there will be arguments and fights in the parking lot over it — not to mention the congestion and gridlock it will create,” Denise Osenbaugh wrote.
A man who said he owns a Tesla pushed back, noting the rarity of such a video.
“You typically don’t have to stop to charge ever unless on trips,” Matt Lynch wrote. “This isn’t like its a daily thing. Plug in at your house.”
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Amid soaring gas prices, the Biden administration is endorsing EVs. Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg has suggested that people would not have to worry about rising gas prices if they bought an EV.
Rep. Jim Jordan, an Ohio Republican, said Biden and Democrats are out of touch with the public.
“Now that they’ve made gas $5 a gallon, what do they do?” Jordan told Fox News host Laura Ingraham on Monday. “They tell us all to go buy a Tesla. I mean, this is how out of touch they are with normal Americans.”
Gas is currently averaging $4.29 per gallon in the United States — up roughly a dollar from last month. California holds the heftiest average at $5.78 per gallon.
