Lawmakers have proposed yet another punitive tax on EVs, attempting to balance road budgets solely on the back of the ~2% of vehicles that are responsible for a vanishingly small percentage of road damage.
Meanwhile, gas taxes haven’t gone up since 1993… and some are trying to eliminate them entirely, during a global fuel shortage that EVs are the solution to.
The US is back with another unfair EV tax proposal, and it’s not any smarter than the rest we’ve seen.
The new Surface Transport Reauthorization Bill was announced yesterday by the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, with the shorthand name “BUILD America 250.” It’s being called a bipartisan compromise, between Sam Graves (R-MO) and Rick Larsen (D-WA), who introduced it.
It’s an omnibus bill intended to deal with the next five years worth of transportation issues in the US, covering federal highway funding, transportation studies, public transportation, railroads and the like.
