The nice think about gas taxes is that they’re mostly proportional to the mileage driven and the weight of the vehicle, two factors that determine contribution to road wear.
EVs tend to be heavy but not contribute at all to gas tax. A separate EV tax for road maintenance is reasonable.
Like we have a short segment of road in my town that’s almost exclusively and regularly used by garbage trucks, which are ~10x the weight of a car. I don’t think the road gets repaved 10,000x more often than other roads though?
"Road work" is almost entirely paid for by overall tax revenue and only a tiny fraction comes from fuel and other use taxes like registration fees. It doesn't include things like police/fire/ems response to crashes.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-05-13/debunking...
In my state, you get a 90 percent discount on your excise tax if your vehicle is of a model year newer than the current year. I don't see anyone getting up in arms about that, but someone buys an EV - which pays taxes on the electricity it uses - and people scream blue bloody murder they're "cheating", because among other things, we don't look at the total cost to society that a car has.
No, friend. These regressive taxes are because conservative idiots in dick-compensating machinery that gets 12mpg are pissed that people who made the intelligent and environmentally conscious choice are being led around by the nose by the oil cartels.
...who are subsidized, and those subsidies are rising: https://www.imf.org/en/Topics/climate-change/energy-subsidie...
https://www.eesi.org/papers/view/fact-sheet-fossil-fuel-subs...