Is increasing fuel efficiency actually a goal of the government? Given how the vast majority of roadway funding comes from gas taxes in most states, and the Federal government also gets a fair amount of revenue from them (while simultaneously the national debt, ever-unpopular, is growing at a rapid rate), it feels like increasing fuel efficiency is actually negatively-incentivized.
On that note: Are there any good proposals for how to replace that revenue source for when electric vehicles eventually eclipse ICE vehicles?
Doesn’t the same general way work—at least for charging at a station. I suppose a similar approach could be used for home charging by requiring the hook-up to have some meter applied and then report consumption by the meter—or add the tax to the electric bill for collection.
But yes, it is a bit of a different setting for collecting tax revenues for electric vehicles. But might also just be one of the add-on fees public utilities already add to my bill to cover the infrastructure build and maintenance costs.
Whether or not proposal are good is always a complex question but yearly tax on electric vehicles is debated by the US congress and it looks like there a bipartisan compromise to do it.
Is increasing fuel efficiency actually a goal of the government? Given how the vast majority of roadway funding comes from gas taxes in most states, and the Federal government also gets a fair amount of revenue from them (while simultaneously the national debt, ever-unpopular, is growing at a rapid rate), it feels like increasing fuel efficiency is actually negatively-incentivized.
On that note: Are there any good proposals for how to replace that revenue source for when electric vehicles eventually eclipse ICE vehicles?
Doesn’t the same general way work—at least for charging at a station. I suppose a similar approach could be used for home charging by requiring the hook-up to have some meter applied and then report consumption by the meter—or add the tax to the electric bill for collection.
But yes, it is a bit of a different setting for collecting tax revenues for electric vehicles. But might also just be one of the add-on fees public utilities already add to my bill to cover the infrastructure build and maintenance costs.
Whether or not proposal are good is always a complex question but yearly tax on electric vehicles is debated by the US congress and it looks like there a bipartisan compromise to do it.