On 15 Jun 2022 at 12:31, Bill Dube via EV wrote:
> Don't tax fuel. Tax tires.
That's an interesting idea.
The US did at one time have an excise tax on tires. IIRC, it was first
enacted to pay for costs of WW1 (or maybe WW2) and extended for some time
after that. It was based on tire
Don't tax fuel. Tax tires.
If you tax tires according to their load rating, and also perhaps
by their wear rating, you can properly tax vehicles on how much "road"
they are "using up."
There is a down side to this approach. Folks will not replace worn
out tires. They will also
On 14 Jun 2022 at 21:15, fred via EV wrote:
> If an entity has to modify the registration system to accept a specific fee
> for an EV, the modification should be based on previous year's travels via
> odometer reading. It's hardly difficult to provide such information during
> registration, no
By no means am I any sort of an expert on this, but I have been
following some of the efforts by Oregon to replace/augment/make more
equitable the road fuel tax structure, both for EV's and ICE's.
One pilot program was based on annual mileage. The shake-down at the
end of the program was that
