• reddig33@lemmy.world
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    5 days ago

    The only fair way to tax cars (and semi trucks and buses) now is to take a mileage reading every yearly inspection, combine that with the car weight, and charge a per mile fee for each vehicle based on that data.

  • betanumerus@lemmy.ca
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    4 days ago

    It should be same fee for all cars regardless of powertrain. Adjust for weight if needed. Adjust gas price to compensate.

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      4 days ago

      This is brilliant: tire wear (loss of X grams of rubber) scales with distance traveled, vehicle weight, speed and aggressive driving.

      but the supply chain is very hard to lock-down, without tire serial numbers.

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    4 days ago

    oh no a $250 dollar fee on my EV is going to ruin all the math I did with gas at a $2.50 when I got my car. oh wait its how much now?