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That's my opinion too. Excise taxes on gas cars are better than carbon taxes applied to gasoline and diesel. Because what you want is people to stop buying gas
by Gibbon1 5y ago
That's my opinion too. Excise taxes on gas cars are better than carbon taxes applied to gasoline and diesel. Because what you want is people to stop buying gas cars, not revenue.
Bonus can use the excise tax revenue to fund buyback and down payment assistance programs. Helping someone replace their older gas car with a new(er) electric also results on a lot less political blow back than raising the gas tax.
- ganoushoreilly 5y agoThere's also dealing with the issue of federal and state losses from taxes from fuel, these will need to be offset. Between state and federal, it's anywhere from .40c or more per gallon in taxes now lost. That's money put towards roads and maintenance (somewhere). I imagine we're going to end up seeing a mileage use tax on EV's as well.
- Gibbon1 5y agoOne of my side thoughts is ordinary people drive a lot more than they want to. The reason being is we don't ding businesses and housing developers directly for the commuter traffic they generate. Instead we focus on cars MPG and not on workplaces forcing their workers into 50-100 mile commutes. You end up with the bosses live five minutes away from work (convenient). And their employees live 30-50 miles away. And the boss never sees that cost on the corporate balance sheet.