And don't forget plug-in Hybrids. They can go on out of state or in state, use gasoline (and pay gas tax), use electricity (and potentially be taxed via odometer also, resulting in doubly taxed, no taxed or any combination therein.
>Not really! The government must collect taxes to pay for roads. Previously it >was done by taxing fuel. You can tax electricity to pay for roads because how >would you know which part >went into the vehicle. So they have to devise >another way Not previously. It's STILL done that way. There isn't a damn thing wrong with the current system. If they want more money, just raise the gas tax. If they are too chicken to do that, then they can just accept the consequences. Adding some stupid tax on cars that get more than 55 mpg or EV's is a damn drop in the bucket as far as revenue goes. This isn't about revenue. It's about something else. I want to stress that the whole thing is ridiculous. Even if you doubly taxed every single EV it would be a drop in the ocean for actual tax revenues. The whole "fairness" thing is a giant red herring devised by a dozen people in the dept of Transportation in Oregon, (As if the public was ever clammoring for taxing electric cars ) This group originally formed about 13 years ago, to get a 2 million dollar Bush-era grant to try and tax people for driving during rush hour...so rich people could drive unimpeded without the riff raff clogging up "their" freeways. The did a pilot study with GPS installed and they did their stupid study and used the money. then instead of just disbanding, they need to keep the funding so they tried to get it expanded and the public overwhelmingly said "NO" to GPS. Now their cushy jobs were at risk so they dusted off the same study to do try and foist the same thing on electric cars and got more tax money. But nobody wants a GPS in their car. And the shennanigans at the NSA have made this even more politically difficult. So now they are desperately lobbying to keep the funding coming and using the "crumbling infrastructure arguments and trying to get the public mad about EV cars...yeah right. I'd guess 90% of the public doesn't even realize there is a tax on gasoline....and probably only 1% have a clue about the amounts. Because they never actually pay a bill. So this whole thing is about job security of a few select people who have already spent millions of dollars of tax payer money to collect a few thousand dollars in tax. They bombard state governments all over the nation with fear mongering studies indicating drastically falling revenues over the next 10 years..and our elected representatives are wetting themselves with math and chart anxiety that they don't even understand. The Oregon group keeps pounding into their ears that EV drivers will destroy our nations infrastructure....So they create task forces that they can blame if anything bad happens. Also because there is no such thing as "math" at our nations law schools, these same geniuses will spend billions of dollars to figure out how to generate millions in EV-taxes. No joke. It's not about revenue in 2012 their pilot program cost the taxpayer $1,515,467. It brought in a whopping $2,840 in tax Their NEW 5000 volunteer program allows 1500 gas vehicle which get LESS than 17 mpg to pay a tax equivalent to 19 mpg. In other words it creates a SUBSIDY FOR GAS GUZZLERS SO THEY PAY LESS TAX And here we are...... Source http://www.nascio.org/awards/nominations2014/2014/2014OR4-Oregon-ODOT%20-%202014%20Road%20Usage%20Charge%20Program.pdf and http://www.oregon.gov/ODOT/HWY/RUFPP/docs/SB_810_Enrolled_Road_User_Charges_%282013%29.pdf -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20141107/04f1d65e/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)
