Or don't eliminate the gas tax, charge ICE vehicles for both, and then use all that money to fund the infrastructure for people to not literally need a car to live.

That would be a logical and fair way to do it. Which is why it’ll never happen.

It is $250 a year for Ohio.

Well, ICE cars already are. I don’t know about Texas but certainly here in California there’s federal taxes on gasoline and state taxes. The state taxes are always explicitly paying for road maintenance, and the federal taxes pay for “infrastructure” in a vague but probably reasonable manner.

We’re all getting lost on the weeds on this one, but in general both the states and the feds are looking to make up the revenue needed to support road infrastructure lost when someone doesn’t buy gas.

Gas taxes pay for road construction in most/all states. No gas means no gas tax, which means the funding for infrastructure goes away.

I'm not agreeing or disagreeing with the proposal, but that's the idea anyways.

We do NOT want an electric car tax, but it would be fair to treat EVs fairly, especially if it goes toward transportation infrastructure fairly.

Some of the problems with current funding

• gas tax is insufficient. If we truly want to cover transportation infrastructure, we need to double or triple
• gas tax is unfair, even before we get to EVs. A more efficient vehicle does not need less infrastructure spending
• goes toward roads, almost exclusively, new projects almost entirely. I know maintenance is boring but it needs to be done, and should be what we need to solve the problem, not just default to road
• most transportation options have been starved of funding for a century. We need to fix that. We need choices. We need more scalable support, both up and down