gov mcdonnel in Virginia wants to eliminate the gas tax --- On Mon, 2/18/13, Lee Hart <[email protected]> wrote:
From: Lee Hart <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [EVDL] EVLN: Texas Considering An Electric Vehicle Road Tax To: "Electric Vehicle Discussion List" <[email protected]> Date: Monday, February 18, 2013, 2:04 PM On 2/18/2013 9:13 AM, tomw wrote: > 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? Because electric vehicle proponents have no effective lobbyists. Proplsals to raise revenues on EVs will be met with almost no opposition (just a few scattered nuts like us). But there are *many* rich, powerful, and well-organized lobbyists opposed to raising revenue on ICE vehicles! They loudly shout down any tax increases on gasoline or diesel fuels or vehicles. And, they will go to great lengths to encourage tax increases on every other kind of vehicle (like EVs). Guess who wins? -- The trouble ain't that there's too many fools, but that lightning ain't distributed right. -- Mark Twain -- Lee A. Hart, http://www.sunrise-ev.com/LeesEVs.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) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20130218/347497aa/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)
