sanitation@lemmy.radio to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 20 hours agoCongress Wants You To Pay $130 A Year Just To Drive An Electric Carinsideevs.comexternal-linkmessage-square125fedilinkarrow-up1244arrow-down17
arrow-up1237arrow-down1external-linkCongress Wants You To Pay $130 A Year Just To Drive An Electric Carinsideevs.comsanitation@lemmy.radio to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 20 hours agomessage-square125fedilink
minus-squareJoelk111@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·7 hours agoI’m really trying to figure out how that makes it OK to tax an EV for double per mile as compared to a prius. The only point I see you making is that roads are fucking expensive to maintain and they drain taxes from everywhere.
minus-squareWesternInfidels@feddit.onlinelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·7 hours agoI wasn’t trying to say “Therefore it’s all OK,” so much as “none of this makes any sense, none of this has ever been fair.” Even non-drivers wind up paying taxes for roads.
I’m really trying to figure out how that makes it OK to tax an EV for double per mile as compared to a prius. The only point I see you making is that roads are fucking expensive to maintain and they drain taxes from everywhere.
I wasn’t trying to say “Therefore it’s all OK,” so much as “none of this makes any sense, none of this has ever been fair.”
Even non-drivers wind up paying taxes for roads.