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Electric Vehicles are a key part of our tomorrow and how we get there. If we can get all the fossil fuel vehicles off our roads, out of our seas and out of our skies, we'll have a much better environment. This community is where we discuss the various different vehicles and news stories regarding electric transportation.

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Republicans propose taxing EVs at 10x the rate gas cars pay, increasing deficit (electrek.co)

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[–] adarza 43 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

imho, the 'loss' of fuel tax is made up by having no tailpipe emissions fucking up the air.

until ev makes up more than half of the vehicles on the road and ice is legislatively deprecated with a sales cut-off set in stone, i think ev owners should get the benefit of no tax on its 'power source' as one of the incentives to switch to and keep using them over petrol-powered vehicles.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago

Aww! Losing fuel taxes? Bummer. Maybe they should ask deep-red Alabama how they do without taxing fuel.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago

Nah, EVs put wear and tear on the road too

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago

In theory I agree with you, but roads are heckin expensive. Gas taxes mostly/entirely go to road maintenance depending on where you are in the world.

We should absolutely charge a pollution tax on fuel as well, but given our current social structure and infrastructure, it would probably make our economy implode.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago

I'm curious how often you complain about the state of the roads you drive on. Girl taxes have already not kept up with the costs of maintaining the roads. Now there's a significant percentage not even paying them.