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Trump Administration Plans to Gut Clean Car Rules (www.nytimes.com)
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New fuel-economy standards, which President Trump said he finalized Saturday, would kill a federal effort to speed the transition to electric vehicles.

Electricification is the one thing that could make the price of gas irrelevant for Americans

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[–] 1 point 13 hours ago* (4 children)

Bear with my ignorance, but what are the issues you see with registration-based usage taxes?

Electric usage tax has the same problem as a gas tax in that it's decoupled from actual public road usage.

edit: hit "send" before actually done writing... Whoops.

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  • [–] 1 point 12 hours ago (3 children)

    Are you registering miles per year on roads as well?

    Why would someone who drives 10 miles a day past the same massive registration cost as someone who drives 100 or 500 miles per day?

    That's why it's tied to gas atm. The higher usage the more you pay.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 hours ago (2 children)

    Sorry, I missed the point where registration includes odometer readings. Sure, it's possible that someone could be driving 10k miles off-road and 100 miles on-road, thereby paying for more than they're using, but it seems quite niche and less complicated a trade-off (and much less tied to fossil fuels) than gas tax.

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