Electric Vehicles? Towing? Hauling?
There seems to be quite a push lately for zero emission vehicles and electric only vehicles. How on Earth would these ever work for us? You can't go cross country in an electric vehicle in a pra...
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JaxDad wrote:valhalla360 wrote:
Fuel tax is the primary source for road funding and is one of the most fair methods as it is directly tied to your use of the system...but EVs circumvent this.
Fair? Hardly!
I drive my SUV about the same distance (35k miles) per year as my neighbour drives her Honda.
Except, her Honda burns (pays taxes on) roughly 700 gallons of gas, while my SUV burns roughly 2,250 gallons, or approximately 325 % more and so I pay about 3.25 times more tax to do the same amount of driving.
Can someone say (with a straight face) that my ride creates more than 3 times the amount of maintenance of roads that her Honda does?
Mind you, she also has 4 kids that go to school for free, I have no children, but I pay more than 10 times the school taxes she does........
Well, you could always buy a Honda. :)
Just kidding. I hear ya. A mileage based system would be a fairer system. There should also be some consideration for the weight of the vehicle. Maybe 5000 lbs and above a higher rate?
This kinda thing needs to be discussed and fair solutions found. Even more important as Electric vehicles that pay no road tax take over the market. Right now there are over a thousand more cars per day hitting North American roads that have no gas or fuel tanks. By end of this that number will be closer to 2000 per day.
Not only that but gas car sales in general are dropping making the widening gap even more daunting. Discussion is good.
