Friday brought a piece of that plan to light with an announcement of another electric battery-making plant in our state.
It comes on the heels of a plan from the Dept. of Transportation to expand infrastructure. Part of that plan is to potentially increase the yearly registration fee on electric vehicles.
Gas taxes are supposed to pay for road maintenance, so an increased EV fee makes perfect sense. Another solution is to add the tax to the power used for charging, either by a separate meter or by detecting the increased load. The EV-ites won't be happy no matter how they pay, ending a free ride is never popular to the riders.
ReplyDeleteAs long as the EV people are unhappy, then either method (or both) is good.
DeleteSticking it to the EV crowd is fine with me, but this smells like a backdoor mileage tax, which is *completely* totalitarian.
DeleteSt_Louis_Arch, and when the EV'ers squawk about the mileage tax, "just to make it fair" the Tennessee Legislature will apply it to everyone. I've been watching those fuckers too long to think they'll do otherwise.
DeleteA politician's answer: "We want to make everything fair and equitable." Means somebody is going to pay more money to do something. We're hit with conserve and global climate and sunpower for 50 years now, and politicians are getting in gear to take more money.
ReplyDeleteI pay a gas tax to use the roads. Charge these guys 10% of the msrp, not resell value, every year.
ReplyDeleteYou'd be surprised at the number of people I meet who don't own one, but think you plug your Tesla into an EV station and it's free.
ReplyDeleteThe lithium processing plant will be primarily owned and will be controlled by the CCP.
ReplyDeleteMeanwhile in Switzerland they are banning EV's because "protect the energy grid"
ReplyDeleteTAX TAX TAX TAX
ReplyDeletegood. now tax bicycles. those f#c#3rs think they own the road, demand special lanes for their convience, yet they do not pay a penny in road use taxes to build and maintain those lanes. (of course, kids bikes, those with wheels of 20 inches or less would be exempt as they seldom get on the main roads.)
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