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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valhalla360 wrote: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........
If you are burning 325% more fuel, you are presumably driving a lot more miles (even with MPG difference)...so yeah, you are creating a lot more need for road costs.
It's not perfect but it's one of the most fair tax systems.
Sorry, I guess in your rush to find a flaw in what I said you missed the first main point I made.
“I drive my SUV about the same distance (35k miles) per year as my neighbour drives her Honda.”
So no, 35k miles EACH is NOT ‘a lot more miles’, it’s EQUAL miles.
