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Oh wow, I didn't even read the text of this initiative that closely.
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Oh wow, I didn't even read the text of this initiative that closely.
The whole premise was to simplify the registration cost. The strike-through is what's being replaced. Instead of $100 + other fees it's now $30. That's it. $30.
This is one of the reasons it is likely to get scrapped by the courts.
Hopefully they look to raising the tax on fools fuel to fill the funding gap. Once EVs are >80% of cars they can start introducing a per mile fee or something...
There would be a lot more people against raising gas tax than EV fees. And the implications of higher gas tax have bigger ripple effects than EV fees. It’s flawed thinking that squeezing out gas vehicles with rising taxes is a good idea. That will simply transfer to higher cost of other products and not make that great of and impact in reducing gas cars. Show me an EV that can pull a 20k work trailer on weekdays and 15k RV on the weekends. Heck if it wasn’t for Tesla there is no way I’d even consider the stupid looking EVs out there.
Punishing people to force to buy something they don’t want or can’t afford by raising gas taxes is not the answer in my opinion.
A true shift to EVs will happen when they start making more economic sense for buyers than ICE
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A fee on fools fuel that better reflects the damage it's doing is one way for EVs to make more economic sense.....
I would prefer something like a 5% tax on equities trades >$1M to pay for a $10k upfront credit on the purchase of an EV and better public transit to make it easier on low/middle income people but I'm not picky....
current EV offerings are laughable at best (again, besides Tesla to some degree)
I don't think it's just a technological problem. The LAMEs (Legacy Auto Manufacturing Enterprises) peddle their POSs because they can. Why cannibalize a profitable product for long-term profit? We don't have time for this to work itself out 'naturally'.
Another option would be a punitive fee at the point of sale for new ICE. This would spare the middle/lower classes since they mostly buy used. IMO at the bare minimum we should stop making new ICE.... The first rule of holes (if you find yourself in one) is to stop digging.... A 40% sin tax on new ICE would probably dampen sales significantly.
I don’t buy into the man-made climate hysteria of the last coupe decades, because absolutely nothing changed since so there is defiantly plenty of time.
Please show me what has changed in terms of global impact the last 50 years that could have been prevented by man. The planet cools and warms up beyond our control over many centuries. It happened before and will keep happening.Well... I guess this conversation is over if facts, logic and ethics mean nothing to you....
Please show me what has changed in terms of global impact the last 50 years that could have been prevented by man. The planet cools and warms up beyond our control over many centuries. It happened before and will keep happening.
Yet nothing has changed.
Like I said, exploiting. But hey let’s tax our way out of it.
If you have robotaxis, they form a train whenever needed, riding 80mph bumper to bumper like rail cars on virtual rails. No need for actual rail cars, rail stations, etc. Also, the the rail tracks are empty most of the time (between trains) while with robo-taxis you get to utilize them a lot more efficiently.Robotaxis fix light rail they don't make it obsolete. You take a robo taxi from your home to light rail and then mass transit 200 people across the bridge downtown who then disperse in robo taxis.
Trains are like fiber. Fast but hard to get where you live. Robotaxis are like 5G. Short range but solve the "last mile" issue of fiber.
I'm pretty sure in a dense urban area, an uncomfortably packed train is always going to move more people than robo-taxis bumper to bumper with just one person per car. Autonomous micro-buses full of people might be an exception. I bike to work, but my observation is that the free-ways are already bumper to bumper stopped. I was in Montreal last week. It always amazes me to see an entire city block of people moving at once on a train that comes every 5 minutes.If you have robotaxis, they form a train whenever needed, riding 80mph bumper to bumper like rail cars on virtual rails. No need for actual rail cars, rail stations, etc. Also, the the rail tracks are empty most of the time (between trains) while with robo-taxis you get to utilize them a lot more efficiently.
Robotaxi can also have ride sharing like uberPools. Why people would like to be “uncomfortably packed” when they have other decent choice? 5 person cars bumper to bumper with no empty railway in between would have comparable efficiency as trains with everyone seated.I'm pretty sure in a dense urban area, an uncomfortably packed train is always going to move more people than robo-taxis bumper to bumper with just one person per car. Autonomous micro-buses full of people might be an exception. I bike to work, but my observation is that the free-ways are already bumper to bumper stopped. I was in Montreal last week. It always amazes me to see an entire city block of people moving at once on a train that comes every 5 minutes.