Your imagination is running wild lol. Tesla is very popular in the Flathead Valley. Lots of people want a supercharger here. Many business people own Teslas. Tesla had an early issue finding a host location. They have the Town Pump working with them now. The current delay is scheduling with the contractor. If you go to Atlas EV Hub to see the number of Tesla vehicles registered in MT by county as of the last update (Dec ‘22) you will see that Flathead has more Teslas registered than Bozeman, Missoula, Billings, and Helena combined. Don’t make up stuff about Kalispell, you don’t know what you’re talking about.
What some people don't understand about Superchargers is it's not the ones near your home that are important, it's the ones 100 miles away from your home. I agree, the lack of Superchargers is not doing a lot to slow down EV adoption in Flathead Valley (where I actually lived 30 years ago), but EV opponents and naysayers don't understand that you
don't need a Supercharger near your home to buy a Tesla, you need them in a 100 mile radius around your home. The loss of tourist dollars is the big impact, not the preservation of local auto sales. However, that doesn't prevent the auto dealer mentality from making a connection between local Superchargers and lost sales.
Visiting Flathead Valley in an EV has been problematic for many Americans because the typical visit consists of staying in the valley 1-3 nights (or more) and, unless you have a destination charger, it's not easy to make it work, particularly if you want to sample many sights, including Glacier N.P. Also, there are a few million Tesla in N. America that love to use the Supercharger Network to plan road trips. Tesla owners with free Supercharging tend to be more affluent than average, retired, and particularly active travelers. If there are no Superchargers in the area, they will not be visiting, not without a compelling reason.
I have family in the Flathead Valley, so I visit anyway (there are multiple ways to make it work, none of them ideal). The last time I was there, I had a crappy and over-priced hotel, simply because it had destination charging. But the charging infrastructure in the valley is so poor, there were not enough destination chargers to serve the demand. I ended up leaving a day earlier simply because I had enough charge to make it out of the valley and whether I would be able to plug in another night was enough of an unknown (with the number of other Tesla fighting over the same charging cable), and I wanted to wake up early charged up and ready to go, not sit around until noon.
The fact that you used EV registration data to try to tell me I didn't know what I was talking about only shows that the point I was making flew right over your head! Lack of Superchargers in a local does not do much to prevent the adoption of EV's, it mostly serves to keep Tesla travelers away.
As to the delay being caused by a scheduling problem with the contractor, I'll remind you that over four years ago you posted this:
The current information from Tesla is that it will be a V3 charger installed by the end of 2019 across the tracks from Brannigans.
This is the location that was nixed by local government officials without providing any guidance on what a better location would be or, what, in particular, was wrong with the location selected by Tesla. There were a number of odd delays and circumstances surrounding this process. That's not normal and Tesla is accustomed to making things happen at lightspeed, not delaying the installation of a Supercharger in Flathead Valley for over 4 years. I'm not willing to blame that on a scheduling problem with a contractor.
Regardless of the actual reasons for the many lengthy delays and refusals to grant permits, there is no doubt the greater Flathead Valley area has lost out on millions of tourist dollars, simply by not being featured on the Supercharger Network maps. And given that those on the lowest economic rungs in Flathead Valley are often dependent upon tourist dollars just to survive, I find that very sad.