Re:In California, Electric Cars Outpace Plugs, and Sparks Fly
by InclinedPlane on Sunday October 11, 2015 @08:38AM
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Is that form of revenue even sensible any more? If you used ordinary tax generation for road building you would also silence critics of pedestrian and cycle infrastructure complaining about it being paid for from fuel tax revenue.
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Re:In California, Electric Cars Outpace Plugs, and Sparks Fly
by revelation on Sunday October 11, 2015 @09:15AM
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Ordinary taxation is already a major source of funding for road maintenance and of course the massive externalities.
Fuel tax in most states is a flat rate that hence isn't automatically adjusted with inflation, and it's political suicide to increase it (just love that cheap gas, but tax those EV fuckers, they are not paying road tax!). It's pretty much a laughably low amount by now.