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Originally Posted by JSH
That is one way to look at it. Another way is that everyone that uses roads should help pay for them and people that use them more (drive more) should pay more. Fuel mileage has nothing to do cost to build and maintain roads. A 2.5 ton Model X takes
It could work out well for people that have multiple cars but don't drive them very often.
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If you can get past the first couple of nonsense paragraphs at the beginning of this diatribe linked to below, to the actual words of the proposal
you will see that the Oregon bill follows the intent
verbatim of the following model legislation.
The legislation below has nothing to do with plug ins (which are just the scapegoat) and has everything to do with eliminating any savings associated with vehicles that get better economy.
https://www.alec.org/model-policy/re...-all-vehicles/
I’m not a fan of bought and paid for legislation telling me what is fair and to whom. I also don’t like legislation that drives a windfall of money to a private 3rd party like IHS Markit to administer these laws and handle public data.
Further, ignoring the breach of public trust and the payoffs...
Eliminating the cost savings to charge everyone from a moped to a 900lb car to a 20,000lb box truck the same cost is regressive and akin to beating up kids at lemonade stands for tax evasion.
Registration fees are designed to collect the cost of the plate, procedurals/overhead and paperwork
Nothing more
and should be eliminated as annual re-occurring taxes.
Fees like these regardless of how large cannot fund any roads as they go into the general fund.
Doing so would save millions of dollars in court, police and beauracratic costs and force government to take hold of proper and efficient funding methods. Re-assigning responsibility back to where it belongs.
This legislation is fully funded by powerful lobbies representing commercial, energy and trucking interests and allows inefficient businesses to continue to flourish by not paying for even a part of the true costs associated with their business models.