Re: This is what scares me more than anything

"Karl Swenson" <[email protected]>
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You are ok with whatever as long as it benefits the EV and Hybrid users the
most.  That is because you equate *good* solely to lower fuel use, which
does nothing to help infrastructure wear and tear.  They still wear out our
roads, but who cares, they use less oil, so WHEEE!

Which is just one reasons why your use of good v bad is wrong and misguided.



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Sent: Friday, May 06, 2011 9:35 AM
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Subject: Re: [DADL-OT] This is what scares me more than anything

On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 10:31 AM, Karl Swenson <[email protected]>wrote:

> In that case, than the per mile tax to support the road infrastructure 
> should be something you support.  After all, regardless of how the car 
> is powered, if its wheels are on the road, it is a drain on the 
> infrastructure.
> So if you tax any, you must tax all equally *if* your justification is 
> to make everyone share the burden according to their use.


That's the ideal. But if the alternative to the gas tax is this complicated,
inefficient and invasive mile tax, I'm okay with the gas tax as it can
encourage "good" behavior.

Electric vehicles are more expensive as it is. But if they come down in
price maybe a usage tax could be built into the initial price.
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