Posted on 08/03/2021 9:10:23 AM PDT by george76
Sounds good to me. Let Democrats piss off every single American at the gas pump and when food skyrockets due to transportation costs. Let’s Get It On !
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No mention in the article of the fact that current highway funding is based on the federal tax imposed at the pump on fuel sales. More fuel efficient vehicles (desirable) equals less revenue for highway construction/repairs (undesirable). With an ultimate goal of switching to all electric cars for most private users (they still have to figure out how to make the logistics of this switch work), further declines in fuel sales means further loses in needed revenue.
Highways, roads, bridges are infrastructure in the truest sense of the word; they are there for everyone’s’ use. And whether an individual uses them a lot or just a little bit, all users want and expect them to be safe and accessible. So, some more modern method of assessing the use tax needed to fund their construction and maintenance has to be developed.
All this provision does is allocate a pretty small amount of funding over a couple of years to figure out how to do this using sampling in all 50 states and a willing group of volunteers to test and report on various data collection approaches and technologies. In other words, they want input from actual users over a broad range of situations and use profiles so that the solutions deployed are implementable and cause the least burden to the users of the utility.
Gee…actually assess the change and figure out the solution before the growing problem becomes a full blown crisis as opposed to the usual approach of “kick- the-can-down-the-road-for-as-long-as-possible-then-complain-about-people-yelling-at-you-while-trying-one-poorly-thought-out-solution-after-another-until-something-sort-of-works”.
Yep. There’s got to be something evil afoot here.
We do. Both State and Federal Governments charge a fuel tax.
My. It has been a very long time since I heard from “The Lid”.
So you like totalitarianism as long as it makes you happy?
That makes you more despicable than they are.
This is Free Republic. You want the Democrat Underground.
You still think the GOP is on your side?
What happens to the state and federal gas tax charges? Tax on top of tax! Governments have been overthrown for less.
This is the case in China. The reason China is leading in EV sales? Because there are extremely high registration costs for gas cars, expensive tolls on roads for gas cars (EV exemptions), and gas cars are forbidden from entering downtown areas of cities while EV's are exempt. Only the rich in China buy gas cars, and even then will buy an EV to get into cities. All government mandated. Coming to the U.S.A. because of democrats.
He was a prophet, but his time was limited. He did a lot, and wrote a lot, but died early at the age of 46.
From what I’ve read, China is building hundreds of coal fired power plants to service electric cars, and conserving petroleum for their military.
The problem with ELECTRIC vehicles is there is no current method to tax them based on their usage of the roads.
We currently have state and federal taxes per gallon of gasoline or diesel fuel. Technically if you are putting diesel in your farm tractor you do not have to pay a highway tax because you are not driving it on the road typically. This is similar to commercial fisherman can purchase commercial diesel to power their boats/ships. Pleasure boats are not allowed to burn commercial diesel.
However, IF you drive an electric car there is no method to tax that vehicles usage of the state/interstate highway system other than the tax/kilowatt.
That is a problem for the government IF we start having an increasing percentage of people driving electric automobiles and tractor trailers.
Its all about the Benjamins.
Those of us that are rural would be affected the most and we don’t have many vehicles on the road. It’s 20 miles to the nearest grocery store, gas station or place to work for us. Some people live a little further out and commute 50 miles round trip 5 days a week. That’s 250 miles a week just to commute.
So we should be punished so that you can have less traffic in the busy place you live?
If this takes some people off the road, it may not be too bad. Our roads are in bad shape and are overcrowded. Fewer cars on the road when I am wouldn’t hurt my feelings.
Rather surprising post from one of the FR “Seniors”
Sooo you support this?!?!
They, who have chauffeurs and government cars, want to make it impossible for the ordinary herd to have a personal car.
If its gonna be too expensive to drive, then why do we need billions for roads and bridges?
“We” won’t need billions for road repairs.
“They” want good road so their Tesla’s don’t damage their axles...
The friends of “they” get the “infrastructure” contracts and can then donate back to “they.”
OOPs...Did I just post this? Deep State truly I don’t mean it...
Currently electric vehicles pay no gasoline taxes that are used too finance roads and highways, how do you suppose they will recoup those taxes? I have pointed that out here for a very long time. Milage tax is coming and we are powerless to stop it.
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