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Electric vehicle owners don’t buy gas. States look for other ways to pay for roads and bridges.
Associated Press ^ | 12:03 AM EDT, March 18, 2025 | Claire Rush

Posted on 03/18/2025 12:06:42 AM PDT by Olog-hai

… Oregon transportation officials say that without more funding, residents like (Timothy) Taylor could see further declines in the quality of roads, highways and bridges starting this year. But revenues from gas taxes paid by drivers at the pump are projected to decrease as more people adopt electric and fuel-efficient cars, forcing officials to look for new ways to fund transportation infrastructure.

States with aggressive climate goals like Oregon are facing a conundrum: EVs can help reduce emissions in the transportation sector, the nation’s largest source of greenhouse gas emissions, but they also mean less gas tax revenue in government coffers.

“We now find ourselves right now in a position where we want to address fuel use and drive down reliance on gases and internal combustion engines. But we need the funds to operate our roads that EVs need to use as well,” said Carra Sahler, director of the Green Energy Institute at Lewis & Clark Law School.

Motor fuel taxes are the largest source of transportation revenue for states, according to the National Association of Budget Officers’ most recent report on state expenditures. But the money they bring in has fallen: Gas taxes raised 41% of transportation revenue in fiscal year 2016, compared with roughly 36% in fiscal year 2024, the group found. …

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Travel; Weather; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: automotive; biggovernment; clairerush; climatechange; climatechangehoax; electric; ev; fakenews; firetraps; gastax; globalwarming; globalwarminghoax; motorfueltax; oregon; socialism; taxes
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1 posted on 03/18/2025 12:06:42 AM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

I saw a price of .84 Euros per kilowatt-hour on a street charger here in Milan.


2 posted on 03/18/2025 12:16:00 AM PDT by Brian Griffin
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To: Olog-hai

Gasoline ranged in price from 1.84 Euros per liter to 2.13 here in Italy.


3 posted on 03/18/2025 12:17:47 AM PDT by Brian Griffin
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To: Olog-hai

Expect annual fees for your EV.


4 posted on 03/18/2025 12:18:26 AM PDT by Brian Griffin
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To: Brian Griffin

Italian price of fuel works out to $8.82 per US gallon.


5 posted on 03/18/2025 12:29:08 AM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: Brian Griffin

92¢ per kWh. A US gallon of gas equals about 33.7 kWh, so that’s about $31 per gallon.


6 posted on 03/18/2025 12:33:53 AM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: Olog-hai

Simple, just put a tracker in every EV so you can know where every person is every second of every day, so that you can tax by the mile. I’m sure this database would never be weaponized, nor would it be expanded to close the “ICE car loophole” because we can trust government.


7 posted on 03/18/2025 12:40:54 AM PDT by coloradan (They're not the mainstream media, they're the gaslight media. It's what they do. )
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To: coloradan

Yep. We’re saved . . .


8 posted on 03/18/2025 12:49:59 AM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: Olog-hai

Are there really enough EVs out there to make a dent in gas tax revenues?


9 posted on 03/18/2025 2:13:21 AM PDT by fso301
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To: fso301

No clue.

Not that I’m citing AP as any kind of reliable source, mind you.


10 posted on 03/18/2025 2:25:23 AM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: fso301
Are there really enough EVs out there to make a dent in gas tax revenues?

Revenue is not the aim of taxation.

It’s control.

11 posted on 03/18/2025 2:44:03 AM PDT by HIDEK6 (God bless Donald Trump)
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To: Olog-hai

Anything to drive (no pun) people/cars out of the state they’ll do it. No thanks, stay there.


12 posted on 03/18/2025 2:50:06 AM PDT by quantim (Victory is not relative, it is absolute.)
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To: Olog-hai

States and municipalities had their chance decades ago when the watermelon environmentalist types (green outside, Marxist red inside) agitated for special bicycle lanes but never instituted an equitable system of road use taxes and licensing for them.

If you’re gonna tax EV’s, you MUST tax bicycles. License, registration, mileage fees, all of that.

And return “road use taxes” from state general funds BACK to highway and surface road maintenance and construction, not pet projects to buy votes from “urban Americans,” teachers’ union thugs and illegal aliens.


13 posted on 03/18/2025 2:50:30 AM PDT by normbal (normbal. somewhere in socialist occupied America ‘tween MD and TN)
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To: Olog-hai
As if they actually used the gas tax money to take care of the infrastructure for cars.
Bike paths and hiking trails maybe.
Some politicians slush fund, definitely.
New York diverts 37.5% of its gas tax revenue,
Rhode Island diverts 37.1%, New Jersey and Michigan divert 33.9%,
Maryland diverts 32.5%, Connecticut diverts 27%,
Texas diverts 24%, Massachusetts diverts 23.9%,
Florida diverts 13.6% and Vermont diverts 13.2%.
14 posted on 03/18/2025 2:52:08 AM PDT by Waverunner
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To: Olog-hai

Many states allowed lotteries and gambling to pay for public education.


15 posted on 03/18/2025 2:58:02 AM PDT by linMcHlp
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To: fso301
Are there really enough EVs out there to make a dent in gas tax revenues?

Just over 80% of the states have an EV surcharge fee for yearly vehicle registrations. Does that fee cover the wear and tear a similar sized ICE would inflict on the roads? Well up to a point. Depending upon state gas taxes, the break even point might be 7K miles a year. After that the EV pays no taxes. The question is how do squeeze the EV owner for the extra road tax if they drive over a certain amount.

16 posted on 03/18/2025 2:59:15 AM PDT by EVO X ( )
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That’s how it’s done in Alabama when we do our annual car tag renewal. After buying our EV in 2022 I noticed an extra $200 EV fee in my car tag cost that my gas pickup car tag fees don’t have. This year it’s not a flat fee, but a higher rate vs gas car rate in the calculation of car value times tax rate = car tag fee. I’m not fussing. EV owners should pay for road upkeep too. Just saying it’s part of the math when listing costs vs savings when determining if an EV would save you money or cost you money.


17 posted on 03/18/2025 3:38:27 AM PDT by Tell It Right (1 Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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To: Olog-hai

Illinois, they have to pay $200 a year.


18 posted on 03/18/2025 3:53:17 AM PDT by roving (Deplorable MAGA Garbage )
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To: coloradan

bingo!

nailed it!


19 posted on 03/18/2025 4:03:30 AM PDT by joshua c
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To: Brian Griffin

They also surely know who is plugging in at home.


20 posted on 03/18/2025 4:04:34 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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