In biden's America ("crime is at record lows") thieves are stealing...what??

Hey citizen, didja hear the great newz?  Duh economy beez booming!

One indication is that the price of copper is at a record high.  And in response, entrepreneurial Americans across the U.S. are recycling millions of dollars of copper!

The twist is that they're getting the copper by stealing cables from...you'll never guess.

Go ahead, take a guess.  It was so totally unexpected that the experts in the biden regime never anticipated it.

Got it yet?  Sure ya do, right?  So all together now, what are they stealin'?

Sure: charging cables from electric-vehicle charging stations.

All ya need are cable cutters, which are dirt-common.  A two-man team can cut a dozen cables--disabling all the chargers--and vanish in three minutes.

ABC helpfully points out that this new, easy target is making life more "exasperating and stressful" for the EV owners, and experts with the biden regime are blaming this for the fact that EV sales are just a smidgen below what the regime predicted for mid-2024.

But don't worry, citizen: the biden regime got congress to tuck $7.5 BILLION into their faaaabulous "Infrastructure Improvement Act" solely to build 10,000 new charging stations across the country!  Yaaaaay!

That was two years ago.  They've now almost completed the job, having completed 80% of that goal.

Oh wait...that was a typo from an Associated Press/biden/harris'granholm press release.  Actually the regime has installed...um...eight new charging stations.  But that's due to...um..."supply chain disruptions."

Wait...it's because of covid lockdowns.

Wait...it's because of having to get environmental impact statements on each proposed site

Wait...it's because there are so MANY jobs out there offering $80,000 or more a year that it's impossible to find anyone willing to do this sort of work!  Yeah, dat's it!

See, that's why we need to keep importing skilled labor from countries like Guatemala and Gambia and Nigeria, eh?  So we have enough people to do the work Americans are too busy watching movies to do.

One small problem with industrious "Americans" stealing charging cables is that it might have a tiny, tiny effect on America's major automakers, which like all automakers have invested billions in EV development and production.

And of course that's still a great idea, as Democrats are still planing to outlaw gasoline by 2035 or so.  Yep.  Well they haven't actually announced that yet.  They've just said all new cars sold after that year must be electric.  The "experts" haven't said how we can generate enough electricity to do that, but they're experts, so we're all confident they'll figure it out.

See, Americans have to buy EVs cuz ABC sez "the world is facing worsening consequences of climate change."

ABC knows this is true because government experts, like esteemed climate expert Jenny Granholm, have told ABC it is.  And so companies have poured billions into designing and making hundreds of thousands of EVs.

Stellantis envisions 50% of its passenger cars being EVs by the end of 2030. Ford set a target of producing 2 million EVs per year— about 45% of its global sales!—just two years from now!  Is that faaabulous or what?

But the most ambitious of the three is Obama-rescued General Motors, which has pledged to sell only electric passenger cars by the end of 2035.  Faabulous, eh?

Companies that own EV charging stations are miffed about the thefts of charging cables, saying they'll have to be insured by the government against cable theft to continue in business.  The head of one such company confirmed that negotiations are on track to get the biden regime to make this a top priority.

One CEO said if his company had to pay to replace all the stolen cables out of their own funds they'd have to pass that cost along to customers.  So the only fair solution would be to have the biden regime either pay the cost to insure cables, or reimburse companies for stolen cables.  Democrat senate majority leader Chuck Schumer agreed that this was very reasonable.

The concern is that as word spread about how easy it is to steal cables, more thieves will turn to this easy target--like walking out of drugstores in San Francisco with trash bags stuffed full of loot.

The price of copper is up about 25% from a year ago, and analysts forecast continued price increases.

Experts say thieves can get $15 to $20 per cable at a scrap yard, with far less work than needed to cut a catalytic converter out of a parked car.  May not sound like much but the experts ABC consulted noted something most people might miss: "The more cables the thieves can steal, the more money they make."  They even wrote out an example for the reporter: "At $20 a cable, 20 stolen cables could fetch $400."

See, that's why they're experts!  

But there's actually a bright side to this: It's that replacing the cables can only be done by very highly trained installers, so the thefts are actually creating thousands of high-paid jobs!  Private companies are tight-lipped about this, but in Minneapolis--where many charging stations are owned by the city--the manager of the Department of Public Works said it costs about $1,000 to replace one cable.

So Jenny Granholm says stealing cables at EV charging stations is actually good for the economy!  It's bidenomics at its best.

Source: ABC 

https://abcnews.go.com/amp/US/wireStory/thefts-charging-cables-pose-obstacle-appeal-electric-vehicles-111044462