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They actually make car buyers chip in to pay for the negative externalities of burning dinosaur bones. Here in Indiana I pay an EV tax to make up for lost gas
by brianwawok 5y ago
They actually make car buyers chip in to pay for the negative externalities of burning dinosaur bones.
Here in Indiana I pay an EV tax to make up for lost gas tax revenue, literally the opposite of what should happen.
- sremani 5y agoEVs are heavier than normal cars and you are using the road. So, it is fair to pay the road tax. Assuming the money collected for this directly goes to road maintenance. I do not have problem with paying taxes that go for roads. Even though in my case I own PHEVs than BEVs. That would be last of my complains.
- nicoburns 5y agoThe effects of climate change are expected to be a lot more expensive than road maintenance, so I think the tax is still the wrong way around.
- sremani 5y agoI would have agreed if EVs had no Carbon footprint.
- brianwawok 5y agoHeavier part is not significant. The weight effect on road wear is like a 4th order effect. 1 semi-truck causes something like 100,000 the road wear of a single heavy EV. I am fine if we want to tax this route, but disel is now going to cost $300 a gallon for trucks.
- TheSmiddy 5y agoIf road use taxes on EV's like Indiana's were legitimate then they would be applying them equally to all vehicles and either lowering the fuel excise in response or keeping it there as a carbon tax but since they apply only to EV's they are almost certainly the result of legislators bowing to their fossil fuel lobby donors.