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Originally Posted by Northendzone
i will be interested when they start charging drives a fee when they use a charging station, because the charge is really a stop at the gas station.
eventually the price of electricity will need to rise to accommodate the required level of taxation
as for greta, i find the timing of her visit interesting. but yeah, i expect her to arrive, be angry, have a preser, be angry, maybe vis the tar sands and be even more angry and then tweet out some mis-inforation and get her followers evn more angry
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The other issues governments are going to have to grapple with is the tax loss from petroleum usage declining. It will be a creeping problem initially, and then they will realize they've suddenly lost loads of revenue and need an "EV" tax to cover it. I don't know if it makes sense to tax the electricity, or setup a whole new system of monitoring km/driven and you pay per km used. As it is, we pay per use(though gas taxes end up in general revenue), so a flat fee per vehicle doesn't make sense.