There's another aspect to this: how is the government to know how many in-state miles you've driven? The only feasible way is with GPS trackers in every car, something horrifically unconscionable.
Yes, you could go off odometer readings, but those will fail spectacularly on two counts: first, miles driven out of state would have to be exempt (and possibly paid to other states; second, you'd have people fiddling with the odometers even more than they already do. Put simply, the government has no business knowing how much I drive where and when. As far as I'm concerned, the correct near-term solution is to increase gas taxes as necessary to make up for the shortfalls with decreased sales. This will encourage people to switch to electric all that much faster, and also make the gas burners pay for the increased environmental damage they cause. When enough people are driving electrics that there's no more blood to squeeze out of gas taxes, the proper thing to do is to shift funding to the general fund. We don't have special revenue streams for things like libraries and police and fire and schools and agricultural inspection and park maintenance and all the rest, even though almost every such government service inevitably only directly benefits a small segment of the population. Rather, we recognize that these are parts of an healthy society, and so we all share the costs, even for those things we don't personally directly benefit from. Even if you don't own a car, you still benefit from well-maintained roadways: delivery vehicles can make their deliveries, emergency vehicles can get to you, public transportation works for you, and so on. The roads are the perfect example of something that society as an whole should pay for, rather than just those who happen to be on the roads at any given point in time. Cheers, b& -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 801 bytes Desc: Message signed with OpenPGP using GPGMail URL: <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20141107/98cf8e86/attachment.pgp> _______________________________________________ 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)
