Ohio getting their gas taxes back from the electric car community

Knew they'd find a way. Actually took longer than I thought.

https://www.wlwt.com/article/new-laws-taking-effect-across-ohio-in-2020/30382775

 

They have to find a way to make electrics pay something for road use.

 

amused at the single tag per vehicle conversion...lol. Because criminals always run the correct plates...lol

 

Yeah because heaven forbid they find a way to reduce their consumption of tax dollars. Of course these are the same people pushing fuel mileage standards higher and higher being too stupid to see that was going to lower their revenue from fuel tax collection.

 

WTF???

 

https://www.equipmentworld.com/oreg...dca33ecd516e524e87&oly_enc_id=8564C6003534A0R

The climate cult is powerful. There will be initial bitching just like in IL when the EV owners had to pay an annual $1k tax, but ultimately the brainwashed climate cultists will be happy to pay the tax because muh Gaia. The scammers in charge know this, they know they can get by with the money grab because they have successfully scared the hell out of their servants.

 

Roads and bridges are a service that is provided by the community. the only fair way to pay for the service is a mileage and weight based use fee. 18 wheelers are 9000 Times more damaging to the roads than a car. can you imagine what it would cost the truckers?

 

Not a fan of any added taxes, but the numbers look pretty trivial. I'd be a little pissed if I owned a hybrid- they already use almost as much fuel as some all-gas cars.
I thought the front plate requirement was already gone?

 

They need that money to subsidize the purchase of EV's

 

This is why every auto I have is a grey Cadillac.

 

Seriously doubt that. I remember seeing signs on the back of trucks saying this truck pays 3000 dollars in road use taxes. add up gas and tires and a average car will pay a lot more than 1/9000 of that.

 

So increase the tax and our costs for goods and services goes up. Who really pays that tax?

 

You’re swimming in a sea of shit you know nothing about. Best to get out while you can.

 

Those greedy 1%’ers!

 

Werd...increasing the cost of delivery is a double win for the tax collector. More revenue on the use side and a little bit more on each sale on the increase at the point of sale.

 

A Penn State study done for Penn DOT many years ago.

 

If roads and bridges are considered a "service" then paying for that service based on usage seems fair to me. Kinda like tolls on a toll road or bridge. Eliminates the use of general revenue for supporting the infrastructure and if done properly would reduce the income taxes/sales taxes. A plus would be that electric vehicles wouldn't get away scott free. I get it that's it's a stretch thinking that "they" would reduce the other taxes to compensate but it would go directly to fixing the shabby infrastructure rather than a 2 trillion dollar shovel ready spending debacle.

 

You seem to be laboring under the misconception that the companies pay these taxes. They may write the check, but the cost is born by their customers...you know, us.