>>>>> >>>>> Another point is that EV drivers usually have TWO cars. So they are often paying double registration fees (i.e. TAX) I've actually got 4 cars and actually pay quadruple registration fees, but I don't see the DMV rushing to rectify this particular "unfairness" , but they want to make me feel like a criminal for driving my EV for "free", while I pay about $180/year in registration fees. I'm calling B**sh*t.
My personal opinion is if someone wanted to make their own Methane, or Diesel, or Gasoline or Woodgas and use it to drive without paying taxes, LET THEM. Do you REALLY think the average idiot is going to be smart enough to do this on his own? It actually encourages the country as a whole to get inventors and Tinkerers out there and see what they can do. The country benefits FAR more by encouraging this sort of creativity than it does by being petty and trying to criminalize it. We've had electric cars for 100 years and all of the sudden they think it's "criminal" behavior to drive on public roads?. Why? Because their salaries and pensions are threatened by EV's. god forbid they would make do with less as we glacially slowly move to EV's. (and the roads are pretty much already built) Instead we hear horror stories of "crumbling infrastructure", but it takes 8 road workers and 2 brain dead flaggers making $20-30/hour to fix a pot hole. (sometimes nearly $40/hour for the flagger) And lest you think I'm joking about the "flag rate" you can follow this link http://www.wbur.org/2011/09/26/flaggers And of course you can't just put 2 smart kids out there to lift a flag up and let the cars go back and forth. Apparently they need to attend safety classes and obtain certifications and often need 1 or more years in workplace safety environments for their new $70k "career" as certified "flaggers" http://www.workzonesafety.org/training/flagger_training You'd think they'd be able to put up a temporary traffic light, but I guess that level of technology is hopelessly decades away......... -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20130105/975ebc7b/attachment.htm> _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
