Every large employer that provides parking should also provide adequate facilities for EV owners to charge. There are several companies that will provide that service. They provide the equipment. They pay the power bill. They charge the EV owners. All the employer is doing is providing a place to park cars (which it already does) and a place to install chargers (which it should do). It should not cost the employer (in this case, the US Government) a penny. No gift of public value; no theft.
Heck, they have a privately operated car wash on-base! Owned by Andy Ryder, the Mayor of Lacey. He drives an EV. He can probably advise on how to provide EV charging on-base.
This is particularly important for people who live in apartments and other living arrangements without private parking adjacent to their residence, as these people cannot easily charge at home. I used a commercial EV charging station in Oregon last month. It cost $0.20/kWh, a premium over what I pay PSE at home, but still under $3.00/gallon of gasoline equivalent. It costs me under $2/gallon equivalent to charge at home. That's including three different taxes that gasoline vehicles do NOT pay, but excludes the road tax that gasoline vehicles DO pay.
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