But to make up for the lost taxes there will be PILOTs ... Payments In Lieu Of Taxes.
You can't make this stuff up.
Posted on 06/10/2013 6:25:54 AM PDT by rktman
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina is joining a growing number of states exploring new fees for hybrid and electric car owners to help make up for revenue those drivers aren’t paying in gas taxes on their fuel-efficient vehicles.
(Excerpt) Read more at fuelfix.com ...
Ok now, WHO didn’t see this coming? Bueller, Bueller...
Let no good deed go unpunished.
Yup, time to take the road trip machine Expedition EL off the blocks ......
It’s funny - leftists get all in a tizzy when folks act rationally and take actions and make decisions to avoid the egregious regulations that they impose on us...
and they’re equally astounded when some policies they push are detrimental to other parts of their agenda, including reduced revenue to their beloved government.
In Ann Arbor Michigan, taxpayers pay to charge electric cars driven by 6 figure earning professors.
The left are, at heart, feudalists...
The “nobility” live at the expense of the “peasants”,
producing nothing of their own, and enforcing their position of privilege through force of arms.
bttt
Can’t escape the Taxman...
On the other hand, the money received from the gas taxes is all too often raided to fund liberal programs, and the roads become pothole filled hellholes anyway, so I don't mind starving the beast anyway we can.
Of course, I love the irony that these extra fees would hit liberals dis-proportionally...
The left hand passes out mega-buck subsidies for electric vehicles that no one wants and the right hand is PO’ed and want new taxes because of lost gas tax revenues. You ever get the felling that they get you coming and going?
I’m in Kentucky and I heard our state is discussing this. I have mixed emotions, though.
Imagine a guy invents an 4,000 lb car that runs solely on solar power. It means (especially in my state) that he is paying nothing to drive on our state’s roads. Fact is, gas taxes (used as they were intended) is one of the fairest ways to pay for a thing. You use the road so you pay for it in the fuel you burn. A light car does less harm so it pays less taxes via its fuel efficiency. But if someone creates a care that is wildly efficient there needs to be some way to extract payment for use.
I’m no fan of tracking miles driven or turning all roads into toll roads, but a surcharge on “ultra efficient” vehicle annual tabs may be a good way to mitigate this.
You and I basically said the same thing, but you beat me to it. ;-)
That’s what happened here in Ohio in a similar libtard move. The electric customers were so good at conserving power (turning lights off when not needed, etc.) as suggested by the power company, that the power company had to raise its rates to bring in the lost revenue to continue to pay the union wages and retirement.
Tax tires, because tire wear is directly proportional to road use. Problem solved.
Actually this is a good thing. Why should you and I subsidize Alternative fuel cars. You are paying their taxes as the fuel tax both federal and state pay to build and maintain the roads.
A hybrird vehicle is not paying the fuel tax and is getting a freeride from all of us. We need to tax these vehicles or we will pay more for fuel taxes.
I am in the trucking business and we pay a lot of fuel taxes for trucks going down the road. But you do too in your car.
No surprise here... All the tax incentives for buying “super-efficient” automobiles, plus the incentive of lower fuel costs (including paying less taxes on that fuel)... but of course, there are strings attached.
And all this while we wonder who is going to pay for the disposal/processing of all the exhausted batteries from these vehicles (mega-expensive to make and dispose of - and are pretty horrible for the environment on both ends.... never hear the Prius salesman mention that...)
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