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La Crosse Kwik Trip to get $328,000 in funding to set up EV charging station
A Kwik Trip on La Crosse’s north side was chosen as one of more than 50 locations in Wisconsin to get funding for installing electric vehicle charging stations.
Just over $23 million in federal grants distributed by the Wisconsin Department of Transportation will be used to develop EV charging stations around the state.
The Kwik Trip on West George Street in La Crosse will receive $328,000 for the project, while a Road Ranger station at the interstate exit in Oakdale is being awarded $972,000.
The Wisconsin Department of Transportation announced Thursday that 53 businesses were chosen to get grants out of more than 200 in Wisconsin that applied.
Businesses receiving those grants are required to provide at least 20 percent of the project cost through private funding.
R Head
May 24, 2024 at 8:41 am
Will you be able to plug in electric bike so people can ride on all the bike lanes in La cross
Tom
May 24, 2024 at 10:32 am
Does anyone recall gov’t funding to establish gas stations during the infancy of the automobile? Or even gov’t funding for establishing of Livery Stables back in the day? No? I didn’t think so. So what gives gov’t the authority to spend our money to do this?
Entrepreneurship is squelched by the gov’t. If the people want it, enterprising entities will make it happen. If the gov’t has to do it, you know it’s bound to be a failure.
Walden
May 24, 2024 at 1:32 pm
Think about it…$328k for an electrical hookup at a single store. Government at its best.
This deserves an FJB.
LG
June 14, 2024 at 9:44 am
Tom, you ask good questions. It is not the function of government to do this, and it certainly is not appropriate for them to choose an industry to promote, in this case the electric vehicle industry. That’s our money confiscated for these boondoggles, like high-speed rail and bridges to nowhere. Something that really sticks in my craw going on right now is….Our local post office has the parking lot shut down so the post office can install charging stations for electric mail delivery trucks. What a horrendous waste of money. This is going on nationwide. It would be so much easier and less costly to simply reduce the number of delivery days. Six day per week delivery is unnecessary given the low volume of mail. Reduced delivery days would also save fuel cost, wear and maintenance on post office vehicles, reduce pollution, greenhouse gases, etc. Instead, they are going to spend a ton of money on electric vehicles and the charging stations to run them. Government run amok.