So last night I go to a Ford Charge place near Columbia SC that Plugshare
mutters something about also being run by Red E, the card reader is broken, I
call the 800 number on the screen and it's the Ford folks, who say the dealer
did swap them over to being run on Red E's network and they no longer had any
control of them.  They passed me to Red E support and I tell them what's going
on, they offered to take a card over the phone but said a $100 preauth gets
place on any card used.  That is set by the dealer, not Red E, as they own the
unit similar to how CP runs things.  WTF?

So then I go to another dealer up the way with a pair of CP250s where I've been
to before, and neither will start -- authorizes the tap-card, tries to start,
and then faults.  Both of them are doing this.  I call CP support and they grub
around for a while and finally figure out that both have been broken for like a
week and nobody's reported them, but they saw a lot of failed-start sessions in
the logs.  So why the fuck when there's a string of fail like that, does CP not
actively *notify* the site owner that something's wrong and get them to roll
repair on these things??  This is while I'm in turtle mode puttering along I-26
*back* (in trip progress) to the walmart northwest of town that I've also been
to before.  Its placement was done by idiots -- where one of the main exit
corridors is right behind where you pull up to the chargers so you're backing
out into a hazardous stream of cars entering and leaving the lot.  Finally
works, though, from down to like 5 miles I had left.

There was a hotel right up the hill that I decided to book while the car was
charging, and it turned out they also have a Tesla destination box, so after a
bit more on the EA I moved up there and got out my adapter and hooked up there
for a few hours to top off.  

The former two are NO BLOODY WAY to run a charging network or promote
EV adoption.