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Re:'The early adopters have adopted': US carmakers slow thei... by AmVess on Saturday October 28, 2023 @07:15PM (#38054368)
More tax is always a dumb, lazy idea. Make EV's more affordable, not ICE cars less affordable.

As it is, half the people with a driver's license in this country cannot afford a base model Honda Civic, much less an EV and its associated charging hardware. Taxing gas will put these people out of personal transportation altogether or make their lives all that much more difficult.

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Re:'The early adopters have adopted': US carmakers slow thei... by mullingitover on Sunday October 29, 2023 @02:29AM (#38056255)
> More tax is always a dumb, lazy idea. Make EV's more affordable, not ICE cars less affordable.

The point isn't to raise revenue via tax, it's to incentivise creating a privatized national charging network and make EV ownership feasible. Making them affordable isn't sufficient. Offer the gas stations all the carrots: loans, easy regulations, profits from EV charging revenue. Offer the tax stick to the ones that won't modernize.

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