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Re:Electric cars 'will not solve transport problem,' report ... by Erlich_Bachman on Friday July 05, 2019 @03:45AM (#20360622)
> At the end state will tax electricity same way to keep this wonderful tax income. No way to have cheap fuel, hydrogen, gas, etc will be taxed same way due to political reasons.

But not clean electricity. The gas is taxed for the environmental reasons: it is endangering our planet. I don't know of any government taxing clean electricity.

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Re:Electric cars 'will not solve transport problem,' report ... by eMSF on Friday July 05, 2019 @04:03AM (#20360709)
>The gas is taxed for the environmental reasons

Then why was it highly taxed before carbon emissions were considered a problem at all? I can tell you: because it's easy to tax (very much like estates).

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Re:Electric cars 'will not solve transport problem,' report ... by ollie87 on Friday July 05, 2019 @04:50AM (#20360908)
Depends where you live I suppose but in the UK there are two taxes on fuel.

Fuel duty which has nearly always been on fuel, but left in place and manipulated as a tax on hydrocarbons - £0.5795 per litre

VAT is then added on top of this price, which has been around since 1973 - currently 20%

Currently there is no tax on electricity used for road vehicles, but we do pay VAT on our Electricity bills so it's fair to assume that the government isn't losing out a huge amount of money by people switching to electric vehicles.

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