Posted on 05/08/2022 12:51:49 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Following a slowly growing national movement, Pennsylvania may be ready to try the idea of charging drivers a mileage-based fee to make up millions in transportation revenue lost to more fuel-efficient hybrid and electric cars.
Melissa J. Batula, the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation’s acting executive deputy secretary, said the department is working with the General Assembly to draft legislation establishing fees for those who pay little or nothing toward road maintenance. That’s because the state gets about 75% of its road money from the gasoline tax.
A commission appointed last year by Gov. Tom Wolf recommended a series of steps to phase out reliance on the gasoline tax, including creating a method for hybrid and electric vehicle owners to help pay for transportation costs.
“There’s still a lot to figure out,” said Ms. Batula, adding that she is optimistic a bill can be introduced by the end of summer.
Oregon has had a voluntary program since 2015; Utah started a similar one in 2018 and Virginia followed in 2019. The federal infrastructure bill includes money for a national pilot program, but nothing has been established yet.
The problem is that states that rely on gasoline taxes for transportation funding have seen that money stagnate or in some cases decrease because of more fuel-efficient vehicles and the growing popularity of electric vehicles.
With the pandemic keeping some drivers home and the Biden administration’s multibillion-dollar push to increase charging stations to grow the number of electric vehicles, the problem is only going to get worse.
In Pennsylvania, the Wolf administration last year set a goal of phasing out the gasoline tax — among the highest in the country at 57.6 cents a gallon — and replacing it with a mileage-based fee . . .
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PING!
Democrats under Wolf are going in the wrong direction again.
No gps for me. Try and verify my odometer numbskulls
F that!
Part of a dystopian nightmare.
This needs to be aborted or at least killed in the crib.
2021: 350 miles. (175 per vehicle.)
City dwellers love this. Another tax or rural folk
For electric cars that’s fine.
The last thing I need is another lump sum tax payment.
Our politicians need more handlebar mustaches to twirl when they get out of bed in the morning.
Yet another disincentive to work.
If they give me a GPS, I’ll through it into the river and claim it was stolen by white supremacists. Those idiots will probably believe that. But many states require cars to be inspected once a year. That might be how they’ll do it. Just take the odometer readings.
the govt is requiring higher mileage vehicles and pushing evs
now they are coming to the rescue to “solve” the problem they created by expanding their control
what percentage of vehicles are evs?
Watch for no cars to be tagged in Pennsylvania, until all the other states start pulling that crap.
“Send us a photo of your odometer.”
Yeah, that will work.
“We are going to install this device in your car to report your mileage driven every day.”
Yeah, that will work. People will happy to have the government put that in their cars.
“We will track your kWh consumption.”
Yeah, that will work. How are they going to break out your EV charging at home vs. other loads in your house. How would they track your recharging kWh at work and public charging stations.
How are they going to solve this? Monitoring gasoline consumption at the pump and taxing it there is easy.
washington state is also working on this
The reasoning is that EV do not pay gas taxes.
Eventually they will tax both gas and mileage for all vehicles
I will be keeping my red barcheta in the barn after the motor law.
Wind in my hair –
Shifting and drifting –
Mechanical music
Adrenalin surge –
Well-weathered leather
Hot metal and oil
The scented country air
Sunlight on chrome
The blur of the landscape
Every nerve aware
Suddenly ahead of me, across the mountainside
A gleaming alloy air-car shoots towards me, two lanes wide
I spin around with shrieking tires, to run the deadly race
Go screaming through the valley as another joins the chase
Drive like the wind
Straining the limits of machine and man
Laughing out loud
With fear and hope, I’ve got a desperate plan
At the one-lane bridge
I leave the giants stranded
At the riverside
Race back to the farm
To dream with my uncle
At the fireside…
I have a 94 Escort. Drive less than 10 miles a week. I like it! ;-)))
That would strike me as more reasonable, rather than by using a GPS, since that wouldn’t actually track your comings and goings and where you are.
They will windup with both.
Government never gives upa tax.
Bullsh, they will just have both.
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