But to make up for the lost taxes there will be PILOTs ... Payments In Lieu Of Taxes.
You can't make this stuff up.
Ok now, WHO didn’t see this coming? Bueller, Bueller...
Let no good deed go unpunished.
Yup, time to take the road trip machine Expedition EL off the blocks ......
bttt
Can’t escape the Taxman...
On the other hand, the money received from the gas taxes is all too often raided to fund liberal programs, and the roads become pothole filled hellholes anyway, so I don't mind starving the beast anyway we can.
Of course, I love the irony that these extra fees would hit liberals dis-proportionally...
The left hand passes out mega-buck subsidies for electric vehicles that no one wants and the right hand is PO’ed and want new taxes because of lost gas tax revenues. You ever get the felling that they get you coming and going?
That’s what happened here in Ohio in a similar libtard move. The electric customers were so good at conserving power (turning lights off when not needed, etc.) as suggested by the power company, that the power company had to raise its rates to bring in the lost revenue to continue to pay the union wages and retirement.
Actually this is a good thing. Why should you and I subsidize Alternative fuel cars. You are paying their taxes as the fuel tax both federal and state pay to build and maintain the roads.
A hybrird vehicle is not paying the fuel tax and is getting a freeride from all of us. We need to tax these vehicles or we will pay more for fuel taxes.
I am in the trucking business and we pay a lot of fuel taxes for trucks going down the road. But you do too in your car.
No surprise here... All the tax incentives for buying “super-efficient” automobiles, plus the incentive of lower fuel costs (including paying less taxes on that fuel)... but of course, there are strings attached.
And all this while we wonder who is going to pay for the disposal/processing of all the exhausted batteries from these vehicles (mega-expensive to make and dispose of - and are pretty horrible for the environment on both ends.... never hear the Prius salesman mention that...)
In all fairness part of the gas taxes are supposed to be for road maintenance, so if you drive a electric car and pay no fuel taxes you are by default not paying your share of road maintenance. Is anyone going to cry for these car owners? Not Me.
Most hybrids don’t get better gas mileage than the best non-hybrids; some people for example buy a hybrid pickup truck. It does better than a regular pickup truck, but most sedans use less gas.
So why not charge people based on the EPA mileage figures for their cars, instead of targeting a particular class of vehicles?
Virginia just did this, to help pay for roads. They should just charge people based on odometer readings.
The chicken little fascists have a plan for this. They are going to put meters in cars in anticipation of charging a heavy tax by the mile you drive.
Take that greenie-weenies!
The chicken little fascists have a plan for this. They are going to put (or have put in) meters in cars in anticipation of charging a heavy tax by the mile you drive.
This is crazy. How can you pay a penalty for something you DON’T buy?