One issue state and federal legislators are considering—apart from trying to mandate EVs and do away with conventionally fueled vehicles—is mileage taxes for EVs. This is necessary, you see, because excise taxes are charged at the pump. EVs, particularly if they charge at home, can’t be similarly, or reliably, charged. Circa January, 2022, the average gas tax was 31.02 cents per gallon, with the federal rate being 18.4 cents.
AHA! They are comin for even more money because Marxists are GREEDY!
As regular readers know, “fuel” costs for EVs are not, in fact, cheaper than for conventional vehicles. Oh, but EVs have all kinds of other ways of being cheaper! Perhaps, perhaps not, but that goes out the window when a battery, which costs 1/3+ the price of a new EV—current average $66,000—must be replaced.
What those pushing for EV mileage taxes are saying very, very, quietly, or not at all, are their true intentions. Such a tax would require mandatory hardware and software to monitor mileage in real time. Such devices would also allow the government to know not only how much you were driving, but where, and certainly, with whom, also in real time. Our self-imagined elite masters surely would not stop there. There would inevitably be mileage limits. Exceed your monthly limit and your vehicle would be shut off. And for “safety” purposes, there would surely be cameras and microphones in EVs to detect any anti-climate change wrong think.
Please go read it all. And remember kids Everything the Left does is a means to an end- the end of your liberty!
I’ve said many times, the EV Fairy Tale does not have a happy ending. Quote me.