Gov For 'Green Economy'- Before It Was Against It

[PoliticalChic]

If the reason to purchase an electric car, or hybrid vehicle, is that it uses less gas.....
......not so fast.




1."RALEIGH, N.C. – North Carolina is joining a growing number of states exploring new fees for hybrid and electric car owners to help make up for revenue those drivers aren't paying in gas taxes on their fuel-efficient vehicles.

2. The proposal strikes many owners of alternative-fuel vehicles and some advocacy groups as a wrong-headed approach to balancing priorities of promoting U.S. energy independence with sustainable infrastructure funding.

3. Gas taxes are the most vital source of transportation funding, making up nearly 40 percent of all state highway revenues and more than 90 percent at the federal level,...

4. The same non-partisan research group estimates that state and local gas-tax revenue fell 7 percent to $38 billion between 2004 and 2010.





5. ...groups say an overhaul that moves the system to a tax based on miles traveled is needed,....

6. At least 10 states are considering or have passed legislation to collect fees from owners of electric or hybrid cars.

7. ....either an additional annual fee or some type of registration fee....

8. The policy looks especially arbitrary when more and more conventional cars are achieving fuel efficiency that's comparable to some hybrid cars,...

9. ...for once actually watching fuel consumption going down, and that's why we're watching these taxes come up."
States look to tax hybrid and electric car owners to recoup road funding | Fox News




Now...repeat after me:

Ya'-just-can't-win.

 

[Old Rocks]

An EV uses the road. Our road construction and maintenance is funded by gas taxes. If a vehicle used no gas, but uses the road, it should be taxed somehow for the support of the road it uses. No such thing as a free lunch.

 

[Mad Scientist]

5. ...groups say an overhaul that moves the system to a tax based on miles traveled is needed,....

That was the plan all along.

See, we (The Bankers) can't restrict your movements, you have "Rights". But we can take your Rights and charge a fee thus making it a "Privilege". We own your Politicians remember?

We will then jack up the taxes per mile until you can't afford to live out in the country and you'll be forced to live in the high density city/manufacturing areas that are already planned. It's all there in Agenda 21 which was introduced at the Rio Earth Summit in 1992.

Thankfully, many Americans like OldRocks watch TV all day and don't believe in "Conspiracy Theories" so they will just mindlessly go along with it.

We will make you PAY for your own PRISON.

 

[PoliticalChic]

5. ...groups say an overhaul that moves the system to a tax based on miles traveled is needed,....

That was the plan all along.

See, we (The Bankers) can't restrict your movements, you have "Rights". But we can take your Rights and charge a fee thus making it a "Privilege". We own your Politicians remember?

We will then jack up the taxes per mile until you can't afford to live out in the country and you'll be forced to live in the high density city/manufacturing areas that are already planned. It's all there in Agenda 21 which was introduced at the Rio Earth Summit in 1992.

Thankfully, many Americans like OldRocks watch TV all day and don't believe in "Conspiracy Theories" so they will just mindlessly go along with it.

We will make you PAY for your own PRISON.

A while back, here in the Big Apple, the electricity utility sent out notices to cut usage, and ways to do so, because they couldn't keep up, and were forced into 'rolling brown-outs.'

So, we, good citizens, cut usage.

They raised rates because we weren't using enough electricity....

 

[Quantum Windbag]

An EV uses the road. Our road construction and maintenance is funded by gas taxes. If a vehicle used no gas, but uses the road, it should be taxed somehow for the support of the road it uses. No such thing as a free lunch.

Are you saying we should eliminate gas taxes and turn all roads into toll roads?