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Road 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
by mikestew 5mo ago
Road 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.
- deleted 5mo ago[deleted]
- 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?