Texas about to whack EV drivers upside the head!

[Turtlesoup]

The actual tax proposed by Texas legislature is well below $500 as well. But the OP's math skills are severely lacking.

But, as I explained earlier in the thread, if an ICE vehicle gets 25mpg, and the average price of regular unleaded is $3.21, it costs $0.13 per mile to drive. If the cost of electricity in Texas is between $0.101 and $0.12 per Kw hr, it costs between $0.03 and $0.04 per mile top operate. (And this does not include oil changes)

If the drivers drive the US average of 12,000 miles per year, the EV driver pays between $360 and $480 per year for the energy to do it. An ICE driver, getting 25mpg, will spend $1,560 per year for the energy to do it. Tacking $400 onto the higher priced electrical rate will still only be $880 per year to drive 12,000 miles. Well below what the ICE driver spends, especially if you add in oil changes every 3k milles.

EV vehicles cost far more to buy and they cost far more to repair. You lose money driving the shit.

 

[LuckyDuck]

Creating another tax to make up for lost gasoline taxes is wrong and a poor move targeting the electric vehicle drivers. If they are going to go to a tax per mile, or some form of it, they should do it by mileage across the board and dump the per gallon gas tax. Sounds like that republican state has already been taken over by the Democrats. Texans better keep an eye on their "privilege" tax on non-exempt businesses, which sound like an income tax by any other name.

Whatever method they wish to use to annually maintain their roadways is acceptable.

 

[skookerasbil]

Of course he is serious and correct, you silly cretin.

I might be a certain but at least I'm concerned about Chinese coal production. Alarmists don't give a wit about it.

I'll take the cretin tag all day....and keep winning

 

[skookerasbil]

Does not even compare to the amount of CO2 released by the burning of gas or diesel in the lifetime of an ICE vehicle. Good Lord, you 'Conservatives' are stupid.

Might be stupid.....

But not losing

Solar and wind power combined provide 7% of US grid electricity. Laughable.

We'll take the "stupid conservatives" tag all day....and take bows.

It's all about who's not winning sOn. Always will be..

Nobody is caring about the science

Get that 4th booster yet sOn?

 

[White 6]

Whatever method they wish to use to annually maintain their roadways is acceptable.

Yes. When you get down to it, Texas will not affect me, either.