Republicans want to tax EV drivers $200/year in new transport bill
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1. Subsidy, give freebies, special privileges (in Poland we have ev cars allowed to drive Bus lanes)
2. Once the market has been saturated, revoke slowly privileges
3. Later move on to normal requirements/taxes/payments - BAU
(Roads won't fund themselves)
We aren't even close to that here. Republicans have turned electric vehicles into a political issue. That being said, it does make me a bit mad watching someone in a brand new Tesla zoom past me in the HOV lane while I'm stuck in traffic in my '86 Mercedes that I've kept running all these years, burned mostly renewable diesel in (previously waste vegetable oil), and have caused way less emissions given that it was manufactured when I was 3 years old, and not replaced every several years like a typical car is.
You with your 86 diesel mercedes manufactured long before emission limits will definitely hurt much much more.
Noxes from that would probably get me swearing at you instantly...
Can you stay behind your car while it's running and breath the noxes?
Do you think other people enjoy that?
I have been stuck behind some recently and had to turn on air recirculation.
Of course it is going to affect, it is VERY polluting, 86 is before any pollution norms.
Noxes from diesel are cancer causing and dieselgate was a thing.
> My point is a bit more macro than you are making it out to be.
On a macro level, a city full of your cars is a very polluted and unhealthy one.
A city full of EVs is clean.
So you don't really care about the environment or people, you just like attention.
Another point, 40+ year old cars over here are a rich people hobby, they pay no taxes since they are clasic cars and are very expensive to buy and maintain, if you lived in one of these places you could sell your classic car to some rich person and buy yourself multiple EVs. You can buy second hand and avoid your perceived production pollution.