New EV fee proposals charge owners 2-3x what gas drivers pay in federal tax
https://electrek.co/2026/03/18/new-ev-fee-proposals-punish-adoption-reward-oil-dependence/
https://electrek.co/2026/03/18/new-ev-fee-proposals-punish-adoption-reward-oil-dependence/
14 Comments
reddig33@lemmy.world · 23 pts · 153d
The only fair way to tax cars (and semi trucks and buses) now is to take a mileage reading every yearly inspection, combine that with the car weight, and charge a per mile fee for each vehicle based on that data.
Steve@communick.news · 8 pts · 153d
This is the way
dumbluck@midwest.social · -2 pts · 152d
ELI5 why can't we just do away with the property tax and make all roads toll roads?
Steve@communick.news · 6 pts · 152d
Property tax is about much more than roads.
It's mostly not about roads. It about police, fire, schools, and practically everything else also.
entropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.org · 1 pts · 148d
We can do that, but if you want commerce to thrive and poor people not to starve in their homes, having public non-toll roads is for the best.
Also, getting rid of property taxes would be effectively a huge gift to the wealthy, who are already getting richer disproportionately fast.
I mean we could intentionally go back to the feudal system, but I think most people would riot.
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca · 0 pts · 152d
LOL. No one inspects cars in North America.
Zomg@piefed.world · 1 pts · 143d
I think it depends per state, but yeah usually it's when you sell a car it first has to be inspected. Maybe he means emissions test, but...EVs lol
mrcleanup@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 152d
Or just tax the tires.
kimchi@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 152d
This is brilliant: tire wear (loss of X grams of rubber) scales with distance traveled, vehicle weight, speed and aggressive driving.
but the supply chain is very hard to lock-down, without tire serial numbers.
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 152d
Then people will buy harder tires which are more dangerous.
BigTrout75@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 152d
Yep, that's because it's from the party owned by oil.
betanumerus@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 152d
breadsmasher@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 153d
land of the free (to be scammed and ripped off). Home of the brave (and stupid to stay)
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 153d
Very few have the means to just leave.
0tan0d@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 152d
oh no a $250 dollar fee on my EV is going to ruin all the math I did with gas at a $2.50 when I got my car. oh wait its how much now?