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My experience regarding the fees for EV registration is that they can seem ridiculous but as soon as you explain to someone that since BEVs don't visit gas stations they don't pay fuel taxes, they realize why it's needed pretty quickly. How best to do it is debatable but its need really isn't.
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THECapedCaper
@tccschreiner.bsky.social
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In Ohio the EV registration fee is $200. By my calculations if you commute or drive enough to fill up once a week, you'd be spending $300 a year just in state gas taxes ($0.385 per gallon). Sounds reasonable to me.
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Das Ganon
@dasganon.bsky.social
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Absolutely! The biggest thing is just how it's resident only which if you're a tourist hotspot is a lot of unpaid wear and tear.
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Technology Connections
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Probably the best intersection between fair and politically acceptable is to do a weight-based registration fee based on some average distance traveled. That would also incentivize smaller vehicles so to me it would be a win-win
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Vinnie D.
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Fuel taxes actually pay very little of the budget for road maintenance. It's actually property taxes that pay for most of it. If you want fuel taxes to pay for roads, then fuel should be taxed at a much higher rate, and by the dollar rather than the gallon.
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