Tax on electric cars because they don’t burn enough gas?

[Lee Borgersen]

Tax on electric cars because they don’t burn enough gas?
By ROBIN HINDERY The Associated Press Apr 23, 2011 05:10PM

 
In this April 20, 2011 photo, Martha Johnson, Administrator of the U.S. General Services Administration, tours an electric vehicle charging station, at Bellevue City Hall in Bellevue, Wash. Johnson said that the GSA will soon begin a pilot program to introduce electric cars to federal fleets. Electric car advocates in Washington state say the state risks alienating users of the cars with proposed legislation that would impose a $100 annual fee on electric cars to make up for lost gas tax revenue. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)
OLYMPIA, Wash. — Drivers of electric cars may have left the gas pump behind, but there’s one expense they may not be able to shake: paying to maintain the roads.

After years of urging residents to buy fuel-efficient cars and giving them tax breaks to do it, Washington state lawmakers are considering a measure to charge them a $100 annual fee — what would be the nation’s first electric car fee.

State lawmakers grappling with a $5 billion deficit are facing declining gas tax revenue, which means less money to maintain or improve roads.

“Electric vehicles put just as much wear and tear on our roads as gas vehicles,” said Democratic state Sen. Mary Margaret Haugen, the bill’s lead sponsor. “This simply ensures that they contribute their fair share to the upkeep of our roads.”


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[The General]

They will get you one way or the other...........might as well drive a truck

[Bobby Bass]

Tax on electric cars because they don’t burn enough gas?

Think this title is wrong, they are using the road, latterin story it talks of upkeep on roads, Would you rather they raise the gas tax on the remaining fuel cars to pay the way for the electric ones? Times are a changin. 

[The General]

No BB I'm laughing at those who drank the kool-aid and bought one of these things to "Save Money".  Pretty soon they'll have a carbon credit tax because they don't pollute as much.   

Plus they look like a death trap.