"If Whelan’s bill becomes law, electric car drivers would be saddled with paperwork that includes tracking their mileage and reporting it to the state Motor Vehicle Commission.
The state then would have to audit motorists and institute fines for late submissions or under-reporting their miles." Oh that will work great. To quote Plato "If there is a tax, the honest man will pay more." The senator's office says the tax is 14.5 cents/gal, and the National Motorists Association says it is 10.5 cents/gal. Maybe the reporter could have checked which is correct? If it is 10.5 cents/gal, then that is 0.42 cents/mile for 25 mile/gal, which is much more than the proposed tax of 0.00839 cents/mile according to the article. But it appears the tax is actually 0.00839 $/mile, at least according to the NMA's estimate of $100.69 per 12k miles. At 14.4 cents/gal, or 0.58 cents/mile the proposed tax would still be considerably higher, so why does the senator's office say they are the same? And since when is simply taking a ratio and then a product considered "crunching the numbers"? I think all vehicles ought to pay a per mile and weight-based road tax. If you can implement it for EVs then you can implement it for all vehicles. -- View this message in context: http://electric-vehicle-discussion-list.413529.n4.nabble.com/EVLN-NJ-bill-to-tax-EVs-by-the-mile-tp4662753p4662759.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)
