I recently had a similar discussion with another EV owner in WV, a state that recently adopted a $200/year annual EV "tax". He was of the mindset that EV owners shouldn't have to pay extra and that it was punitive. I argued that we should have to pay and ran the numbers. Using average annual driving miles and average fleet economy, the annual amount paid in state fuel taxes by ICE drivers was basically the same as the state EV tax. This breakeven did not include federal fuel taxes, so we're technically still ahead on fuel taxes. We are both EV adopters and promoters and my opinion was that if we fought the tax, the opposition would spin it as "EV owners think they're entitled to use the roads without paying their fair share" and they wouldn't be wrong. I argued that it would be better to not fight the tax and lobby for better EV services funded with those dollars. The state could use those funds to install charging stations at state maintained rest areas on the interstates, install charging for the public at convenient state facilities frequented by the public (DMV locations, etc.), or use the funds to provide tax breaks to businesses that install charging infrastructure. I think that would be a more positive way to go about and not provide free ammunition to the opposition.