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Senator Chuck Schumer and Dems are freaking out over a proposed $200 electric car tax.
First, road repairs are funded through gas taxes and a big selling point for EVs is that they avoid gas taxes. The Dem solution to this was a creepy plan to track every car’s mileage. A flat car registration tax on EVs is a fairer and much less Orwellian solution that doesn’t involve detailed government surveillance.
Second, EVs were incredibly subsidized at the expense of actual car owners through redistributionist mechanisms such as carbon taxes. Car owners in places like California suffered to subsidize EVs.
It’s only fair that some of that money be paid back.
Road wear and tear is MUCH higher due to the extra weight from the battery.
True, and the weight is a factor in the severity in accidents. But that kicks off my peeve about how poorly most of our roads are laid. We build most of them to be maintained, not to last.
We need a Hot Air Tax as well that means Gore and DiCaprio would have to pay Taxes for t heir little Lectures the same with all those Global Warming/Climate Change nutcases
So … eliminate the federal motor fuel tax and replace it with an annual fee based on vehicle weight and number of axles. Highway design has experience-based criteria to document the wear and tear imposed by the various vehicles that use roads. For example, a six yard concrete truck does 3,000 times as much damage to a road as the average family SUV. Such a fee schedule could also consider the difference between commercial and private vehicles, in that commercial vehicles typically travel many more miles per year than a private vehicle. While there may be some imbalance due to variation in the actual miles traveled by a particular car or truck, overall the scheme would more accurately reflect the demand placed on roads and highways by users.
My brother is a civil engineer who worked on his first highway build over 40 years ago.
Since then he has built a lot of roads, streets and bridges.
According to him the calculation for heavy articulated vehicles is one of their axles going over a piece of roadway is the equivalent of 20,000 standard cars.
SUVs and light trucks create more wear than cars, and EVs are worse than them.
That’s before you get to all the particulate pollution the EVs put out through increased tyre wear.
True, trucks and other heavy vehicles can destroy roads.
But most of us do not realize how serious the EV issue is.
I just wish they’d spend all this money better. Lay proper beds, grade them for vehicle handling physics and drainage, and build our roads to last.
$200?!
If we went back in time and charged Rockefeller $200 for tetraethyl lead
or charged John Mannsville $200 for asbestos
or charged JR Reynolds $200 for false tobacco advertising
it could not be any worse.
EVs require hundreds of tons of ores to recover RARE elements, thousands of tons of coal to turn that into batteries, charging stations, and electric grid infrastructure, and Lord knows how many tons of coal or natural gas to generate the electricity for the things.
EVs require slaves to mine the ore. And wars to settle which tribes or cartels can sell the ores to the Chinese.
EVs last a dozen years at most.
EVs become waste in a dozen years – and the RARE materials cannot be recovered.
Oh wait – I do know how to recover them – but NO ONE would like it! We have no freaking idea how to do it …
because – if we saw it – we’d be screaming about murdering Gaia and polluting the planet with forever chemicals!
EVs are an insane way to rape the planet and destroy our spaceship … while claiming to solve a problem that does not exist.
And it will never work.
EVs will eventually go the way of perpetual motion machines, tape worm diets, asbestos, and arsenic wallpaper.
G-d help us if we don’t stop the madness before it’s too late.