Under the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, the Biden Administration allocated $7.5 billion to build charging stations and managed to build 8.

“It was one of our crowning achievements,” IIAJA spokesperson Ima Spendthrift said. “Then, to see our hard work wiped away in a single weekend of perfectly legitimate, and mostly peaceful, fire bombings is heart-breaking.”

At last count, 14 charging stations were burned in protest, while the IIAJA had only managed to build 8.

“Sure, we lost ground,” Spendthrift said, “But for just another $8 to $10 billion we can catch up.”

One protester was caught fleeing the site where he set chargers on fire with Molotov cocktails. Unfortunately for the protester, he forgot to charge his Tesla before burning the charging station and his battery died a few blocks away.

“I got carried away by my emotions,” protester Grey Shading said. “I just came by to charge up my car but when I thought of how many NGOs were losing their funding, I could not help myself.”

Shading refused to explain why he had ready-made fire bombs with him.

At publishing time it was unclear if Shading would be prosecuted or given a citizen-hero medal since he committed the arson in San Francisco.