This sounds like it's a bill meant to allow gas stations to pivot into becoming paid EV charging stations.
Which kind of makes sense, since the switch to EVs will probably cause acute financial distress, such as destroying the financial situation of any family that owns/runs a gas station. A pitiless free marketer probably wouldn't care about that destruction (and they may even celebrate it), but I'm at least sympathetic to measures that would lessen the blow or make the transition less painful.
It might make more sense to just buy those people out, but that would take budget, and a proposal like this doesn't.
Which kind of makes sense, since the switch to EVs will probably cause acute financial distress, such as destroying the financial situation of any family that owns/runs a gas station. A pitiless free marketer probably wouldn't care about that destruction (and they may even celebrate it), but I'm at least sympathetic to measures that would lessen the blow or make the transition less painful.
It might make more sense to just buy those people out, but that would take budget, and a proposal like this doesn't.