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More tax is always a dumb, lazy idea. Make EV's more affordable, not ICE cars less affordable. As it is, half the people with a driver's license in this countr
by AmVess 3y ago
More tax is always a dumb, lazy idea. Make EV's more affordable, not ICE cars less affordable.
As it is, half the people with a driver's license in this country cannot afford a base model Honda Civic, much less an EV and its associated charging hardware. Taxing gas will put these people out of personal transportation altogether or make their lives all that much more difficult.
- mullingitover 3y ago> More tax is always a dumb, lazy idea. Make EV's more affordable, not ICE cars less affordable. The point isn't to raise revenue via tax, it's to incentivise creating a privatized national charging network and make EV ownership feasible. Making them affordable isn't sufficient. Offer the gas stations all the carrots: loans, easy regulations, profits from EV charging revenue. Offer the tax stick to the ones that won't modernize.