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Old 06-11-2019, 10:52 AM   #93 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by redpoint5 View Post
The way road infrastructure is funded comes from fuel taxes and registration. EVs pay zero fuel taxes, so increasing the registration cost is the only in-place method to even that out. As I said, most EV owners are still paying less towards infrastructure than other ICE drivers in IL.
More than 85% of Illinois' road funding comes out of the general fund (I looked it up a couple years ago when some idiot yelled at me from a car about "not paying for the roads" while I was on a bike).
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