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Personally - since I rarely drive - this would keep me on gas powered cars indefinitely. There's no way my driving habits amount to $1000 in gas taxes every yea
by typenil 7y ago
Personally - since I rarely drive - this would keep me on gas powered cars indefinitely. There's no way my driving habits amount to $1000 in gas taxes every year.
I can see how they'd think it was reasonable if they just did the average of cumulative gas taxes per person, but it doesn't account for use in any way.
- nugget 7y agoIllinois wants to raise their gas tax to 44 cents per gallon. Assuming 20 mpg you'd have to drive about 45,000 miles to hit $1000 in State gas tax. If you factor in the Federal gas tax too, it drops to about 30,000 miles. The average American driver drives less than 15,000 miles per year. So a fair equivalent in terms of EV tax would be $500 or less, especially if you consider that the drivers racking up the most miles per year are probably the least likely to buy EV vehicles due to range and charging station limitations.
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- Retric 7y agoThey are also raising the same fee for standard vehicles to $148. So, it’s an extra 852$ a year for electric cars, or a little over 25k miles including federal taxes at 20MPG, or 50k miles at 40MPG.
- Retric 7y agoDepending on how it’s classified, plug in Hybrids could be a real winner. Avoid range issues, while also minimizing gas usage in daily driving.
- kolbe 7y agoI've put 50k miles on my prius over the past 6 years, with the vast majority of my fuel coming from out of state. I would be a fool to switch to EV.