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Absolutely dishonest framing. Road maintenance is funded via gas tax. Thus EV owners should have to pay a different way. They certainly use the roads, so why wo
by semiquaver 5mo ago
Absolutely dishonest framing. Road maintenance is funded via gas tax. Thus EV owners should have to pay a different way. They certainly use the roads, so why would this be controversial?
- eli 5mo agoThe headline is intentionally inflammatory, but that's pretty much what the article says. FWIW, the gas tax also only pays a fraction of the actual cost of maintaining roads.
- mikestew 5mo agoRoad maintenance is funded via gas tax. Federal gas tax is generally used for new roads, not road maintenance. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highway_Trust_Fund https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highway_Trust_Fund If you want an “honest framing”, raise the federal fuel tax to match inflation, then we’ll talk about EVs. Plain and simple, this is just a move to punish EV use.
- xdennis 5mo ago[flagged]
- mikestew 5mo agoOr do they plan to pay back all the subsidies Just as soon as fossil fuel companies pay back their subsidies, I’ll have a check ready to send to the U. S . Treasury. I still find it difficult to believe people bring up EV subsidies with a straight face, like it’s the only thing the government has ever subsidized.
- throwway120385 5mo agoIt's a kind of crab bucket thing in the sense that people see other people getting slightly ahead on something and instead of looking for their own way to get ahead they reach up and try to pull the other person back down into the bucket.
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- convolvatron 5mo agomy understand was that the federal govt won't be collecting this tax. they are mandating that the states collect it, and if they refuse there is punitive language about withholding federal transportation grants.
- semiquaver 5mo agoI read your link and it does not support your assertion. In fact it implies the opposite: > […] attempts […] to suspend the federal gas tax, without which […] would have halted efforts to repair and expand the Federal highway system. (emphasis mine) Did you have a specific quote you intended to point to to support your claim?
- baggachipz 5mo agoI already get ~fined~ charged an EV tax by my county and state. So now I get to be triple-punished for having an EV?
- not_the_fda 5mo agoThey should get rid of the gas tax and tax all vehicles by weight and miles driven.
- nephihaha 5mo agoThis would effectively attack people for living in rural areas, rather than urban sprawl because they have to travel further...
- iAMkenough 5mo agoIf we want to take Congress earnestly, heavier users of roads should pay heavier taxes. You could argue urban drivers are currently subsidizing rural drivers because they travel fewer miles in a year. My opinion is this should be up to each State, and that this is federal government overreach.
- tzs 5mo agoHow do? Gas usage is roughly proportional to miles drive, so gas tax is already roughly a tax on miles driven.
- not_the_fda 5mo agoThey are using the resource the most.
- jinushaun 5mo agoPunish the users that use it the most? Sounds fair
- why_at 5mo agoI'm a totally biased EV owner, and I agree that it's only fair that EV owners pay for the roads they use. But it's annoying to see the US government find a new way to discourage one of the most clear cut ways to reduce fossil fuel usage. If things were fair, we would be taxing gas for its contribution to air pollution and climate change. We should be doing everything we can to encourage EV adoption, but the current administration is interested in doing the exact opposite. They apparently found a way to do so which gets bipartisan support.
- delfinom 5mo agoLet in Chinese EVs. Sure, Detroit which is on life support from making shitty overpriced cars would cease to exist. But EVs would take over the US in just 5 years.
- iAMkenough 5mo agoHow many miles of federal roads do you drive in a week?