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    Congress Wants You To Pay $130 A Year Just To Drive An Electric Car

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    1. rdmodsrtrsh on

      I already pay the state extra in registration, what do I get from the Feds for that fee

    2. Joe18067 on

      Add the $200 extra Pennsylvania drivers of EV’s have to pay and it get’s expensive if you don’t drive many miles.

    3. DENelson83 on

      Eventually they will increase that tenfold to cushion the profits of the oil companies.

    4. Royal-Branch-567 on

      In Virginia, that’s the yearly registration fee – because you don’t pay gas tax. OR you can let them install a GPS device on your car for a reduced fee. Negative

    5. frosted1030 on

      Why does this bother you when you won’t pay the fees to register to vote and produce a birth certificate, and passport and two forms of ID?

    7. Tiny-Eye693 on

      neighbour’s great dane is called Keith. just Keith. hearing a grown man scream KEITH NO across the park at 7am is something i’ll never get tired of

    8. ElderberryPrevious19 on

      You put more strain on roads than similarly sized internal combustion vehicles so why shouldn’t you pay the same road taxes? It’s never been about the climate FYI, they just make up reasons to get more money from us so this was only a matter of time.

    10. squintamongdablind on

      If the argument for extra fees on EVs is that they’re heavier then make weight-based registration fees consistent for all cars.

    11. TheMurmuring on

      You mean, the Trump Republifascist regime wants you to pay to drive an electric car.

    12. Brandoe on

      “The oil industry” wants you to pay $130 a year to drive an electric car. Ftfy

    13. NoScallion2856 on

      Getting hit with extra fees at renewal time for driving an EV is bad enough, so adding another federal tax on top makes zero sense. It’s pretty clear they’ll just keep blasting those costs up later on to protect oil company money anyway.

    14. IntelArtiGen on

      They should rather pay people to drive EVs because it’s much smarter for the environment, for healthcare / reduced air pollution, and for energy consumption.

    15. No_Instance6986 on

      I actually agree with this. Taxes on gas (are partially supposed to) pay for roads. Evs drive on roads without paying a gas tax so this makes sense.

    16. MOONGOONER on

      Already a thing in Louisiana. My wife paid $130 for her EV, I paid $65 (I think) for my hybrid, not even a PHEV.

    17. jon13000 on

      It’s political retribution. No way around it. They know who drives EVs. And be specific, the GOP wants you to pay.

    18. LoserBroadside on

      They’re desperate to punish people for trying to exercise their freedom of purchase. I’m surprised they haven’t just tried to make electric cars illegal, or treat them like cigarettes and alcohol.

    19. 69sofine on

      To all the people saying EV drivers should pay because they don’t pay gas taxes – go ahead an estimate how much you pay in gas taxes. These EV fees are exorbitant and are much higher than any equivalent gas taxes on a per mile basis.

    20. XLauncher on

      >In New Jersey, it’s $270 to register an EV, and drivers also need to pay the first four years up front. 

      I didn’t know that. Damn, that’s crazy.

    21. Public_Fucking_Media on

      Devils advocate – this is fair, since we pay for highways and roads with the gas tax, Congress needs to figure out a way to charge electric vehicles for their usage as well?

    22. Budget_Read_4085 on

      They have to add some sort of tax. If the government does not get a gas tax then they need to fill the void in funding. Remember, the government never reduces its yearly budget. The budget only increases.

    23. TalonusDuprey on

      I already pay a tax which is the highest in the country (NJ) so ya, I guess what’s another tax eh?

    25. UnaidedGinger on

      While we are on the topic of people pay their fair share maybe we could go after some billionaires who pay less taxes than most of us?

    26. klop2031 on

      Oh look ppl driving cars with renuable energy gotta figure out how to tax non gas cars too! Where is my vote aginst this bullshit

    27. ClimateAncient6647 on

      Once they start paying for their own shit, then maybe it can be considered.

    29. stipo42 on

      How about get rid of the gas tax and just use income taxes.

      So sick of being double taxed everywhere

    30. Wistephens on

      A rational government (clearly not USA) would use taxes/fees as levers to support increased efficiency.

      I have no problem with an annual fee to pay for federal road usage. However, it should consider aspects that contribute to wear

      – weight of vehicle: heavier vehicles cause larger road wear. This will hit semis and trucks, which will cause a huge freakout, which is why it won’t happen.
      – number of miles driven on the INTERSTATE highway system. They can buy this data anywhere and estimate (no, they don’t understand statistics). I mostly drive city, township, and state roads.

      The federal gas tax should stay, perhaps at a lower level, to account for usage-based fees.

    31. Long_Advertising_737 on

      My granny who drives three blocks to the grocery store, puts 5000 miles on her car a year, pays the same as someone who drives an Uber and puts 30000 miles a year.  Seems fair to me…

    32. AsLongAsI on

      I fine with paying my road tax. I need the roads just like anyone else. I’m already paying more than any truck on the road though. I paid $200 in Texas. That is about $60 more than a truck at 20 mpg. $10 more if you do it at 15 mpg.

      $130 is more reasonable than Texas answer with federal tax only being 18.4 cents per gallon. I think we need a better answer to this though. A more far way on the amount you pay.

    34. hornetjockey on

      It doesn’t surprise me that they are looking for ways to replace the fuel tax. I find this to be fairly reasonable as long as they actually use it to fund roads and such.

    35. Fluid-Board884 on

      This is so stupid. Just get rid of the federal fuel tax altogether and implement an annual tax based on reading the mileage at the odometer and the weight of the vehicle. This would be the most efficient and fair way to provide federal funding for roads. A mileage based vehicle tax (that considers vehicle weight) would also be completely neutral to fuel type and directly link the tax bill to the amount of damage caused by your vehicle. Using the odometer reading to assess the would also protect individual privacy because the government doesn’t need GPS location data to assess the tax.

    36. ketosoy on

      As the driver of a gas car:  we should make it up with more taxes on gasoline for the next decade or so.

    38. ssd3 on

      i hate to be skeptical but there sure are a lot of people defending this and curiously no one contemplating the implied mileage. assuming i compare to an ICE that gets 40 mpg, this is about 28k miles of tax. seems excessive.

    39. Able-Ambassador-921 on

      EV owners aren’t paying their fair share of gasoline based road taxes so they should be pay a usage fee.

    41. trisco2001 on

      So I kind of get this. There isn’t a “gas tax” that’s just assessed by the state, there’s actually a state gas tax AND a federal gas tax. Washington’s state gas tax is ~0.464 per gallon. The federal gas tax is ~0.184 cents per gallon.

      This amounts to about $90 a year in tax for a typical gas car (12k miles, 25 mpg, $0.184 per gallon).

      The crappy thing is getting charged way more than that. $130 is way higher than $90. It’s basically what you’d pay driving a gas car that gets 17mpg. That’s rude!