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<blockquote data-quote="Babagounj" data-source="post: 5703545" data-attributes="member: 12952">[URL unfurl=&quot;true&quot;]https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/furious-family-calls-cops-on-biden-s-energy-secretary-s-staff/ss-AA1gAY4P#image=1[/URL]A family was forced to call the cops after Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm&#039;s staff blocked an EV charging station in Georgia while promoting green energy. Granholm&#039;s (pictured) four-day trip from North Carolina to Tennessee was designed to &#039;draw attention to the billions of dollars the White House is pouring into green energy and clean cars,&#039; according to an NPR story about the drive. But one issue they were forced to contend with was the lack of charging stations across the country for electric vehicles to be a reliable choice of transport. Granholm&#039;s staff ran into trouble outside of Augusta, Georgia, when a family in an electric vehicle confronted them because they were blocking off a spot at an electric vehicle charging station with a gas-powered car. According to Camila Domonoske, who wrote the NPR piece, &#039;an Energy Department staffer tried parking a nonelectric vehicle by one of those working chargers to reserve a spot for the approaching secretary of energy.&#039;&#039;That did not go down well: a regular gas-powered car blocking the only free spot for a charger?&#039; she continued. &#039;In fact, a family that was boxed out - on a sweltering day, with a baby in the vehicle - was so upset they decided to get the authorities involved</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Babagounj, post: 5703545, member: 12952"] [URL unfurl="true"]https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/furious-family-calls-cops-on-biden-s-energy-secretary-s-staff/ss-AA1gAY4P#image=1[/URL] A family was forced to call the cops after Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm's staff blocked an EV charging station in Georgia while promoting green energy. Granholm's (pictured) four-day trip from North Carolina to Tennessee was designed to 'draw attention to the billions of dollars the White House is pouring into green energy and clean cars,' according to an NPR story about the drive. But one issue they were forced to contend with was the lack of charging stations across the country for electric vehicles to be a reliable choice of transport. Granholm's staff ran into trouble outside of Augusta, Georgia, when a family in an electric vehicle confronted them because they were blocking off a spot at an electric vehicle charging station with a gas-powered car. According to Camila Domonoske, who wrote the NPR piece, 'an Energy Department staffer tried parking a nonelectric vehicle by one of those working chargers to reserve a spot for the approaching secretary of energy.' 'That did not go down well: a regular gas-powered car blocking the only free spot for a charger?' she continued. 'In fact, a family that was boxed out - on a sweltering day, with a baby in the vehicle - was so upset they decided to get the authorities involved [/QUOTE]

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