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I personally think Govt should ban home charging if they are going to ban non-EV vehicles.

How is that rich people with homes charge at home while everyone else has to queue up and waste their time at charging stations.

Doesn't seem fair at all. Its a extra time tax on the poor.

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This is nonsensical. You are taking away extremely useful technologies from people who can afford a parking space next to a power outlet, all because it's not fair to people who don't have that.

>This is nonsensical.

Whats nonsensical is thinking people will vote to increase taxes on themselves to improve public infrastructure if it doesn't benefit them.

we shouldn't create public policy expecting ppl to vote for it purely out of goodness of their hearts.

So your solution to some people having an easier time charging is to make it worse for everyone?

There are people who suggest banning private schools so that the wealthy and powerful will be incentivized to improve public schooling. GP seems to apply the same logic to EV charging.

Exactly!!!. Thats one of the example I had in mind.

Which is a bad idea, considering public school admissions are generally district based, so only only rich districts, the ones with already generally better schools, would (maybe) improve. This fixes nothing.

Correct. This logic is used to ban charter schools in many areas of the country.

No point rehashing the same logic again.

Wouldn't that increase charging queue times for the poor?

No because there would be a bigger push to develop public infrastructure. Charters vs public schools, same logic.

I'm not sure how you'd effectively enforce that. Charging happens at standard power levels.

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