Louisiana about to impose road tax on EV's

T. A. Gardner said:
The state government of Louisiana says EV's and hybrids aren't paying their fair share of road use taxes mostly paid by gasoline sales. The legislature there just passed a bill that will impose a tax of $110 annually on an EV and $60 on a hybrid for road use. So, on top of paying more for your car, you get no tax break from not using gasoline...

https://www.theadvertiser.com/story...rid-owners-charged-fair-share-fee/9800575002/
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Actually, a poll cat tax should judicially fired up on the un-American republican party of sedition, crimes against humanity and that goes for their shady and seditious blue dogs too.
 
T. A. Gardner said:
Difference. Your analogy is wrong and amounts to nothing but a thought terminating cliche. There is ZERO technological reason we need to go to battery cars. The ONLY reason they are being pushed is political environmentalism, almost entirely from the Left. That's it. There is no inherent advantage in a EV over a ICE car. If anything, environmentalism aside, EV's are at a disadvantage to ICE vehicles in most respects.

So, for what reason(s) should we adopt EV's other than because of the demands of radical environmentalists?
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Lol. Gasoline isn't going to last forever. And yes, global warming is real. The only radicals are the right-wingers who can't even walk outside without accusing their own shadow of being fake news.
 
T. A. Gardner said:
The state government of Louisiana says EV's and hybrids aren't paying their fair share of road use taxes mostly paid by gasoline sales. The legislature there just passed a bill that will impose a tax of $110 annually on an EV and $60 on a hybrid for road use. So, on top of paying more for your car, you get no tax break from not using gasoline...

https://www.theadvertiser.com/story...rid-owners-charged-fair-share-fee/9800575002/
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Indeed.

They must pay their "fair share" of taxes.
 
American Man said:
I don't understand why anyone would want to impede scientific progress.

Oh, wait. The naysayers are Republicans. Nevermind.
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Electric cars have existed since at least 1834, long before gasoline cars were invented. They didn't work then...

Look it up.
 
American Man said:
Lol. Gasoline isn't going to last forever. And yes, global warming is real. The only radicals are the right-wingers who can't even walk outside without accusing their own shadow of being fake news.
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Yea, yea, sure it isn't... The Greentards have been saying that since the 70's and we have more known and untapped oil resources today than we did then. Oil is also a renewable resource. You can make it from algae for example. More is being formed daily, even if it takes nature thousands of years to finish the product. The bottom of our oceans are littered with gigatons of frozen methane that will eventually turn into oil.

https://www.livescience.com/65798-f...,000 gigatons lie beneath the ocean, she said.

The radicals are the Leftist Greentards, and their scientific illiterate supporters who don't know shit about energy, energy production, and believe insanities like all pollution standards should be zero.
 
T. A. Gardner said:
The state government of Louisiana says EV's and hybrids aren't paying their fair share of road use taxes mostly paid by gasoline sales. The legislature there just passed a bill that will impose a tax of $110 annually on an EV and $60 on a hybrid for road use. So, on top of paying more for your car, you get no tax break from not using gasoline...

https://www.theadvertiser.com/story...rid-owners-charged-fair-share-fee/9800575002/
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Will they have road agents? :D
 
Hmm.. Do you think all the money from gasoline sales goes to taxes?

An EV costs on average $0.04 per mile for the electricity. Currently an ICE vehicle that gets 30mpg will cost about $0.13. Adding in the cost of the use tax for the EV adds about $.011 per mile

So you pay a 20% premium on the car and then get an annual savings of $900.

Buying a Nissan Leaf vs a Honda Fit
Leaf - $27,000 - $7,500 tax credit - $19,500
Fit - $16,000

Difference of $3,500

Annual fuel costs for 10,000 miles
Leaf - $400
Fit - $1300

Leaf saves $900 per year in fuel


Annual oil change/air filter savings
Leaf - $0
Fit - $150

Leaf saves by needing no oil changes.

By year four the Leaf has cost you less than buying the Fit. Pretty simple math for anyone that keeps their car for the average 6 years.
 
Poor Richard Saunders said:
Hmm.. Do you think all the money from gasoline sales goes to taxes?

An EV costs on average $0.04 per mile for the electricity. Currently an ICE vehicle that gets 30mpg will cost about $0.13. Adding in the cost of the use tax for the EV adds about $.011 per mile

So you pay a 20% premium on the car and then get an annual savings of $900.

Buying a Nissan Leaf vs a Honda Fit
Leaf - $27,000 - $7,500 tax credit - $19,500
Fit - $16,000

Difference of $3,500

Annual fuel costs for 10,000 miles
Leaf - $400
Fit - $1300

Leaf saves $900 per year in fuel


Annual oil change/air filter savings
Leaf - $0
Fit - $150

Leaf saves by needing no oil changes.

By year four the Leaf has cost you less than buying the Fit. Pretty simple math for anyone that keeps their car for the average 6 years.
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Factor that $7,500 back in because that's OPM and a government bribe. It isn't Monopoly money like you make it out to be.
 
T. A. Gardner said:
Factor that $7,500 back in because that's OPM and a government bribe. It isn't Monopoly money like you make it out to be.
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So now the Leaf is cheaper than a Fit if you keep your car for over 8 years since you save $1050 a year in fuel and oil, a $600 brake job and $1800 for spark plugs and other fluids needed for the 30K, 60K and 90K maintenance.

The math is pretty easy for someone willing to do it. (Assumes all other maintenance is the same but one extra brake job because the fit has regenerative braking.)

Leaf - $27000
Fit - $16000 + (8 x 1050) + 600 + 1800 = $26800
 
Poor Richard Saunders said:
So now the Leaf is cheaper than a Fit if you keep your car for over 8 years since you save $1050 a year in fuel and oil, a $600 brake job and $1800 for spark plugs and other fluids needed for the 30K, 60K and 90K maintenance.

The math is pretty easy for someone willing to do it. (Assumes all other maintenance is the same but one extra brake job because the fit has regenerative braking.)

Leaf - $27000
Fit - $16000 + (8 x 1050) + 600 + 1800 = $26800
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Except for the Leaf needing that battery change...

That's currently $5,500 not including labor. The odds aren't good on it going much longer than that depending on where you live. Of course, that's way better than a Tesla...
 
T. A. Gardner said:
Factor that $7,500 back in because that's OPM and a government bribe. It isn't Monopoly money like you make it out to be.
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The left are only capable of repeating twitter math. Other than that they have a hard time even counting to twenty if they take off their shoes.
 
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