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I don’t have any problem with this
$110 per year. The gas tax is $.20 per gallon, average gas tank is what, 12 or 15 gallons. If its 15 gallons thats $3 bucks per fill-up so the EV owner is paying what a gas guzzler driver pays for 36 fill-ups per year, three per month.
Sounds like a cash grab to me, punitive even, especially since the EV owner seems likely to be a city dweller, one who would own a small car and not put on a lot of miles.
Seriously? In my state cars are registered for 2 years. If you take the $110/yr EV tax and add it to the the NYS registration fee that's about $400 for two years. That's well within the grasp of even lower middle class people.Perhaps the gas tax was the wrong place to fund transportation infrastructure in the first place?
As we move from internal combustion engines to electric motors the gas tax is going to die. What is going to happen is that when you register your vehicle you are going to pay all of the taxes then. This will be hard for many people to do. It will lead to only the wealthy using personal vehicles while the not-wealthy-enough must take public transportation. Then mass population movement towards cities. And with fewer drivers the higher the fees go for drivers making it impossible for anyone to drive except the very wealthy.
Especially if you shell out 100k plus for the carSeriously? In my state cars are registered for 2 years. If you take the $110/yr EV tax and add it to the the NYS registration fee that's about $400 for two years. That's well within the grasp of even lower middle class people.
Yes. punish the manufacturer.What if they didn't know the source of the materials? Isn't that more on the corporation than the consumer?
Yes seriously. When people are living paycheck to paycheck it can make things difficult. A La Cart paying the tax for gas is a lot easier than a lumpsum.Seriously? In my state cars are registered for 2 years. If you take the $110/yr EV tax and add it to the the NYS registration fee that's about $400 for two years. That's well within the grasp of even lower middle class people.
Or, the more that have to pay via the ' ev' tax.Yes seriously. When people are living paycheck to paycheck it can make things difficult. A La Cart paying the tax for gas is a lot easier than a lumpsum.
It is a tax and taxes tend to increase. As fewer people drive combustion engines the higher that tax will go.
To do that, they would need to have violated a law.Yes. punish the manufacturer.
Create a law.To do that, they would need to have violated a law.
I was half hoping you'd tell me there already was one.Create a law.
So it's the consumer, not the producer's, fault? Way to go there for personal repsonsiblity. Don't fine the person who did it, instead just fine the person that buys it? This is why conservative logic is so ****ed up and asinine. DISMISSED!EV and electric car owners should be fined significantly if their battery is made of Cobalt that came from a Chinese owned mine in the Congo.
It’s the producers fault.So it's the consumer, not the producer's, fault? Way to go there for personal repsonsiblity. Don't fine the person who did it, instead just fine the person that buys it? This is why conservative logic is so ****ed up and asinine. DISMISSED!
It’s the producers fault.
Not anymore.Yet, you want to fine the consumer.
I sure love how conservatives are all for lowering taxes, except for things they don’t like.Louisiana: Bill imposes road maintenance fee on EV and hybrid owners
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Louisiana owners of electric or hybrid vehicles would be charged an annual state road usage fee under legislation that has cleared the House Transportation Committee. The Ad…www.myarklamiss.com
Now back in the day..I remember there being a conversation on here about how bbb I think had this exact bill as a test program and people were not happy over it.
I am highly amused.
A road maintenance tax on vehicles no matter the power source would make sense, with possible exceptions if you don't drive it more than a certain amount.I sure love how conservatives are all for lowering taxes, except for things they don’t like.
Saying that, there needs to be a funding mechanism to pay for road maintenance regardless of fuel source.