Texans should impeach him quick, though I don't recommend replacing him with Arnold Schwarzenegger. But your call.
They’re building massive lengths of elevated hwy in San Antonio alone.
His is for population expansion. I imagine this yearly charge is for that
If that’s the case, it’s Texans paying for the influx
If the influx also votes democrat that would be a quadruple insult
Excellent!!
Don’t they pay taxes on their electric bill?
Sounds reasonable.
AFAIAC, Texas and every other state can tax EVs out of existence!
EVs are a scam! A hoax!
I know, you know and they know that there is NO benefit to EVs except for the Chinese! And, the Biden Crime Family, of course!
A pox on their house!
Given that the state gas tax in Texas is 20 cents/gal, that corresponds to the tax you would pay driving 20,000 miles a year in a car that gets 20 miles/gal.
Ok,I take the minority contrarian opinion here.
Government encouraged people to buy ev’s to reduce gas usage/dependence and to help the environment. Less people would have to burn gas. They wanted people to do this.
Now government wants to phuc these people over because they are somehow escaping taxes. Leave it to government to villainize the people they encouraged to become villains.
Its not the ev owners fault for this. Its government trying to blame shift lack of taxes onto the very group of people they encouraged to increase their numbers.
About time these freeloading, virtue signaling b*stards starting paying their fair share to repair the roads their glorified golf carts help destroy. Better yet would be a miles driven tax, but only for EV’s.
Wonder how they figured in the hybrid owners that have a much smaller, lighter battery pack, with only about a 40 mile battery range and a gasoline motor for when the battery goes dead.
Or the hybrid that uses both a EV/gasoline function on at all times during use.
/smart alec
Chickenfeed.
It should be a yearly fee and current owners should be charged for years past.
Peanuts compared to the damage they do to our roads and infrastructure. Not to mention they contribute nothing like the gas taxes paid by ICE owners.
I’m sure there are exceptions, but my bet is that most EV buyers will not be in the least deterred by this tax/fee. Some will consider it a badge of honor. I know my BIL and his wife wouldn’t care for more than 30 seconds the tax on their electric Volvo. The people buying these cars are not working for $15 an hour. It’s the $15 an hour wage earner who is paying for their $7,500 tax credit from the government.
I haven’t done the math, but I’m guessing most ICE drivers are paying a bit more than $200 a year in gasoline taxes.