Yes indeed, everyone will pay. All the apartment complexes that the law will eventually require EV chargers for every resident - you may live in a single family home but you're going to pay for it.
Scott
This has never made sense to me, every apartment I’ve been in has 110vac by most every assigned parking space since the 70’s and you pay for your own electricity. These outlets are for block heaters and to run normal battery chargers or lights to do simple maintenance on your car.
Normal humans don’t need L2 to do their day to day (50 miles)
If you need more too bad so sad, go to a paid dc charger.
Nothing like taking a $5 problem and turning it into a $5000 one.
By the way, I find that tax flat out crazy.
That tax structure is the model legislation being pushed for adoption nationwide, ALEC and trucking groups want to make having a car of any type extremely expensive offloading freight costs to individuals.
My state had one ma roads but saying every man woman and child needed to pay $10,000 a year to repair bad infrastructure.
He also said of hybrids/EVs that maybe if we tax them enough they will push on the gas pedal.
The reality is that “fair share” is 100% BS, most of us owe nothing on roads as the damage is all done by freight. (In my state I rarely touch highways and local roads get minimal gas tax funding anyway)
Legally registration fees were NEVER supposed to make money or pay for roads, only cover notory cost.
As has been proven, if no road taxes were collected it has zero affect on actual budgeting for roads. There has to be will to fund roads and ballooning the road fund to excessive just builds new offices for staff.
The idea individuals should be paying lots of extra fees for roads is laughable because the fees rarely get used there.
Montana had the right idea, make private party car license plates permanent and non-expiring over the life of the car you own, eliminate a massive number of DMV jobs/cost, also eliminates a lot of policing and judicial costs.
Keep gas taxes because they are over 99% efficient at collection, keep tolls because they reduce traffic, tax commercial operators more since they do more damage and get the rest from general funds.
The above is basically what is done nationwide anyway (general funds roads)
DMV fees collections are extraordinarily inefficient with only about half not being lost to legal, enforcement, notory, etc. our local emissions program (in containment counties) has been loosing money for decades despite being moderately expensive.
Fees to individuals are always optional and drive large legal and policing expenses, as such they waste money and serve little purpose.
We already charge thousands of different taxes that can and already are used for roads.
Until we come up with something similar to gas tax we can simply continue adjusting taxes we already have and fund roads.
I’ve been hearing roads aren’t being properly funded for 3 decades, after several massive expansions to road funding absolutely nothing has changed.
It appears that more road taxes have no coorelation to road quality so why worry about it?
