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Originally Posted by Murf993
Interesting article on the steps government is going to have to take to offset the loss of gas tax. Oregan and Utah are already charging EV owners an annual fee on top of what other fees they pay. There are always consequences to every action.
https://c2cjournal.ca/2021/10/the-ga...XeTVgGaZLQ_9m0 |
That was a tough article to read since it was Canadian based but discussed U.S. gas taxes at the State level. Considering the US take-up rate on EV is still less or around 2% of the market and Canada is at 3%. I'm really not seeing an issue here and for anyone to make a claim EVs are affecting gas tax revenues at this point in time.
A mileage-based fuel tax will just be a money grab for the politicians. The Feds already suck up 18.4 cents per gallon on top of State gas taxes. I'd argue the gas tax should be a computed as a sales tax, rather than based on unit of measure. If a mileage-based tax is instituted then it should only apply to EV. Big-data Tesla knows exactly how many miles each of its cars drive per year.
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A manual transmission can be set to "comfort", "sport", and "track" modes simply by the technique and speed at which you shift it; it doesn't need "modes", modes are for manumatics that try to behave like a real 3-pedal manual transmission. If you can money-shift it, it's a manual transmission. "Yeah, but NO ONE puts an automatic trans shift knob on a manual transmission."