A little bit of aluminum foil grounded to the frame makes a great Faraday cage for a GPS antenna. You wouldn't want government mandated property to get struck by lightening would you?
Oh boy. This is how is starts.. "It's just 1c per mile.. why are you getting so upset about $1 per mile? How can you be so angry over just $10 per mile?!" Then they'll find an excuse to force this on gas vehicles as well, just because. "Look at our bullshit made up numbers that say all the tracking data is making driving so much safer! Time to mandate this great technology!!"
All taxation & fees related to utilizing the public works is bullshit, but... if you're gonna tax citizens fairly, by-the-mile is more logical than what we've got. Approximate marginal wear & tear your own use contributes to the roads.
But everything we have ever seen about governments means we can't trust them with this information. Ever.
Read somewhere that EVs eat tires up faster because they’re heavier and so if they’re heavier there’s gotta be more wear and tear on the road I would think. Therefore should be taxed higher, but they’ll make it the burden of the ICE owners.
Yes indeed
Yeah, the article didn't go so much into the tire issue. At least the one I read. It was talking about the increased damage to the roads since EVs are so much heavier.
The one I read zeroed in on an increase of rubber nanoparticles being emitted due to the heavier weight of an EV.
The current system is far fairer than anything that is going to be implemented because of EVs. The current system is also the most secure in terms of privacy.
But what about if they let you buy roads and gain passive income off of them.
Instead of the government road slumlord it could be you!
Like turnpikes? Turnpikes were originally private roads/routes.
disagree... for instance Alaska / Montana / etc have roads with almost ZERO use that require rebuilding every year
downvote is not an "I disagree" button on Poal FYI. Red level users can see downvoters
they want their sweet sweet taxes... and without fuel, how will they get it?
The government wants to add one more 'energy vampire' feeding on an already underperforming power system.
This seems like it would be trivial to circumvent.
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