Some of this is veering off topic, but I think that states are looking at EVs as a revenue base means that we have caught their attention. We are prime time and this is a testament to our success.
So yeah, I hate taxes too, but if the state comes up with a tax that is fair based on my use of the roads, I'm completely willing to pay into that. If it's a punative tax for using a machine that nobody understands, then I'm not so on board. sean On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 10:13 AM, tomw <[email protected]> wrote: > It is well known that gasoline tax revenues have been declining for many > years primarily due to improved gas mileage of ice powered cars, and well > before the major vehicle manufacturers produced a significant number of > electric vehicles. So why do solutions to address declining revenues target > only electric vehicles, which will add very little revenue since they are a > tiny proportion of vehicles? It makes more sense to track vehicle miles and > tax ALL vehicles at per mile rates that depend on vehicle weight. The > hardware to do that is simple, and could be read each year at smog stations. > I think the answer is primarily people like the Koch brothers and oil > company reps and their talk show shills pushing for obstacles to electric > vehicles (witness the trashing of the Chevrolet Volt by these folk) along > with the fact that there is little harm done to a politician's career by > targeting a group that is relatively weak politically (there are not many ev > owners to vote against them). The same group of folks also feeds paranoia > about having a miles-tracking device in the car, but such a device doesn't > need to record location, just cumulative miles, and could easily be made > quite tamper-proof. > > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://electric-vehicle-discussion-list.413529.n4.nabble.com/EVLN-Texas-Considering-An-Electric-Vehicle-Road-Tax-tp4661373p4661383.html > Sent from the Electric Vehicle Discussion List mailing list archive at > Nabble.com. > _______________________________________________ > 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) > -- Sean Korb [email protected] http://www.spkorb.org '65,'68 Mustangs,'68 Cougar,'78 R100/7,'60 Metro,'59 A35,'71 Pantera #1382 "The more you drive, the less intelligent you get" --Miller "Computers are useless. They can only give you answers." -P. Picasso _______________________________________________ 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)
