Featured Federal EV fees

Quoted from the article at the root of this thread:

(emphasis mine)

So with all the other "political non-starters" that have already occurred in the past 100 days, what's special about this one?

Just crank it up to $2/gallon and leave it for another 30+ years.

 

I would think the petroleum lobby would have something to say about that one.

 

i don't mind paying my fair share for road and bridge maintenance. while i think there are more fair ways to go about it, 200 bucks a year isn't going to kill most ev owners.
i'm driving about 6,000 miles a year in the bolt. at 25mpg in a gasser, that would be 240 gallons of gas.
at 42 cents/gal state and fed tax, that's about a hundred bucks

 

someone moved the goalpost

 

The best answer is to eliminate per gallon taxes and make a universal tag tax both State and Federal. I would just base it on tire count and not try anything more sophisticated.

Bob Wilson

 

Having a goalpost implies that there is a definable goal, right?

Mike

 

i think yes

 

Wisconsin any car 20+ has permenent plates, Montana has played with permanent as well (possibly not at the moment)

 

Montana gets permanent stickers at 10yrs. The Mercedes motorhome we just sold was 10 years old & it just got 'em

 

So does that mean you have no registration fees each year after that?
How do they know if the car is still in operation or has moved to another state, for example. Or do they not care?

Mike

 

ok - i'll explain.
You still have to pay a nominal fee for registration, you just don't get a new sticker. The worst downside for this is, there are nefarious wealthy, very wealthy people that will register a bogus LLC here in Montana, where they keep their hyper sports car registered, to avoid the hideous fees you would normally pay in your real estate, had you registered your $500,00 or million dollar + car in the state you actually keep it in normally.