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Its always a negotiation with politicians and they WILL find a way to come up with the money one way or another. I do not agree with the 200 though but like I said its expensive to maintain roads and the money has to come from somewhere. I do not however want to or think as an EV owner we should be taxed at a greater rate than the ICE owners.
The incongruous aspect of this goes far beyond that. It is not a viable solution because gas tax is not paid solely by Washington State vehicle owners. It is paid by purchasers of gasoline from Oregon, California, Canada & beyond (especially truckers) not to mention the fact that out of state EVs would not contribute either. The only truly equatable solution would be per mile traveled in each state through a tracking device that would be required on any vehicle traveling on Washington roads. Seems impractical & unlikely to happen any time soon.Don't play the negotiation game.
The problem isn't the amount. The problem is that EV owners pay a fixed amount while gasoline car buyers pay based on fuel consumption as a proxy for whatever else they're measuring.
This link worked well for me.Washington State Legislature
Bill is officially commentable. Comment away about how it's insane to pay more in gas taxes than a hummer for the most fuel efficient vehicle. Also EVs cost +$15k over an ICE. So the state already got $1.5k extra in sales tax.
He sounds like a professional politician.
I feel like this would be a good place to bring Tesla into the conversation as well. This affects sales and they have all of the tools (and regulatory heft) to lobby on our behalf.
They use the excuse to impose this fake income tax because they haven't yet figured out how to implement a per mile system. But Tesla could say "give us a Vin list of every Tesla registered in WA and we'll give you a month to month database of odometer numbers and flag any mileage reversals as fraud.
This would be trivial to do and would be a very lightweight database query on Tesla's part. Shouldn't take more than 2s to execute.
Now WA has no excuse.
Apparently, there is a pilot program for per-mile usage tax in WA. They need to at least wait until they have the results from the pilot program before making such drastic and sweeping changes to legislation. This is putting the cart before the horse.
Sorry you don't understand. The fees legally automatically expire as soon as they implement per mile taxation. They are pushing because they know the fees are exorbitant and will be nullified as soon as that pilot program.becomes available. They are going to try and block any progress on per mile billing as long as possible to fleece EV owners for as much as they can.
So if I drove 12,000 miles with my previous car, I'd pay ~$190 in gas tax (I actually drove closer to 9k/yr, but 12k is widely considered average). Under the per mile, that would be $288. Under the flat EV fee, it would be $350. There's an unreasonable amount of discrepancy between those three prices.Apparently, there is a pilot program for per-mile usage tax in WA. They need to at least wait until they have the results from the pilot program before making such drastic and sweeping changes to legislation. This is putting the cart before the horse.
So if I drove 12,000 miles with my previous car, I'd pay ~$190 in gas tax (I actually drove closer to 9k/yr, but 12k is widely considered average). Under the per mile, that would be $288. Under the flat EV fee, it would be $350. There's an unreasonable amount of discrepancy between those three prices.