routeforty wrote:
If you go back and read my post more carefully you will see that my beef is this-My Camry hybrid(NOT EV) gets the same mileage as my friends Camry(NON HYBRID) yet I pay $100 more for my registration than they do. We had a Prius for a while(until a deer totaled the car), with the great mileage that we got I had no problem with the extra fee. If I owned an EV I would have no problem with the fee as I would be using no gasoline, therefore no fuel tax-for road maintenance. I know it's only a hundred bucks, which is nothing to me, it's the principle of it.
I agree that if you cannot plug in and use low cost and un-roadtaxed electricity to go at least a few miles on electric only... the fee is a poor judgement by your local government.
Some are already feeling the revenue pinch with the general increase in efficiency for gasoline/diesel vehicles so it could become more common and eventually be added to all vehicles.
While the road tax on fuel seems like a good fit I believe everyone uses the roads and the money should to some extent come from progressive income tax. Possible the registration fee should be based on weight.
