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This is related to the aforementioned thread ('Costco Removes E.V. Chargers'), but I didn't wanna seem like I was hijacking it, so I started this.
I realized that we were forgetting an important part about the discussion of electric and hybrid cars, fuel taxes.
While the government is pushing us into vehicles that get higher MPG, the result will be the governments (state and federal) will be getting less revenue, and we all know they can't have that now can they? So what are they gonna do? They'll track and tax your mileage. (And yes I know I spelled it 'millage' a few times in the other thread.)
At which point, electric and hybrid vehicles will be just as expensive (or even more so if electricity rates necessarily skyrocket) as gas and diesel vehicles, if you can still get one.
My question is, what then? If the government makes it too expensive to operate electric vehicles, are we back to the horse and buggy? Bicycles? Walking? In which case everyone would have to move to cities to be near anything, and you know they'd have to find a way to tax that to keep up revenue. So then people would just stay home, but that would mean no sales and income taxes either.
My bet would be public transportation, they're already pushing it hard, it keeps us out and about to spend and make money they can tax, and I see buses from other counties and cities picking up people near where I live, and I live out in the suburbs where it used to be the only buses we saw on our streets were school buses. I have no problem with public transportation in and around a city, or school buses to pick up and drop off kids, it beats walking. But I find it kind of strange seeing all these public transport buses going so far for just a couple of passengers.
I realized that we were forgetting an important part about the discussion of electric and hybrid cars, fuel taxes.
While the government is pushing us into vehicles that get higher MPG, the result will be the governments (state and federal) will be getting less revenue, and we all know they can't have that now can they? So what are they gonna do? They'll track and tax your mileage. (And yes I know I spelled it 'millage' a few times in the other thread.)
At which point, electric and hybrid vehicles will be just as expensive (or even more so if electricity rates necessarily skyrocket) as gas and diesel vehicles, if you can still get one.
My question is, what then? If the government makes it too expensive to operate electric vehicles, are we back to the horse and buggy? Bicycles? Walking? In which case everyone would have to move to cities to be near anything, and you know they'd have to find a way to tax that to keep up revenue. So then people would just stay home, but that would mean no sales and income taxes either.
My bet would be public transportation, they're already pushing it hard, it keeps us out and about to spend and make money they can tax, and I see buses from other counties and cities picking up people near where I live, and I live out in the suburbs where it used to be the only buses we saw on our streets were school buses. I have no problem with public transportation in and around a city, or school buses to pick up and drop off kids, it beats walking. But I find it kind of strange seeing all these public transport buses going so far for just a couple of passengers.
