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show your work. cause even worst case scenarios show evs are more efficient even when charging only on coal than a gasoline vehicle is. how much fueling efficiency do you reckon is lost when trucking 4000gals of gas across the country with an 18 wheeler getting 5mpg?

“Abbot is a dick with a vendetta against trees for taking his ability to walk”

no, because you have other ICE vehicles that are not semis and dump trucks that are heavier that the average EV that do not pay extra. They pay with their gas taxes, which does not car how much the vehicle weighs. Lets not pretend that all EVs are heavier than every single ICE except for semis and dump trucks.

Why don’t they make non-drinkers pay an alcohol tax on the booze they don’t buy? Cigarette taxes to be paid by non-smokers. That money goes for public services as well. 

If I was going to make an IED [improvised explosive device], ammonia nitrate wouldn’t be my choice of explosive.”

Heavier that brodozers (aka emotional support trucks)? 

Yes, stupid/petty indeed. Red states are holding their entire populations hostage to the viewpoints of an extreme elderly, white, straight, group which likes to call themselves Christian, minority.

The we’re adding this tax because we need to pay for roads excuse is so disingenuous. As noted in the article, “Texas’s gas tax is among the lowest in the country.” That’s because it was last raised 32 years ago (1991), and isn’t indexed for inflation.

Elon’s waaaaay to the right of garden-variety Republicans now. Plus, he only cares about what’s good for Elon, not party politics.

The “average” Texas driver is in a pickup truck getting 18 MPG or less. So, some of the estimates in that article are wildly off. The $200 year is still more expensive than what those pickup truck drivers are paying, but not wildly so.

Yeah, this is what happens when you have Big Oil Corpos in charge.

Somebody should inform this guy about Timothy McVeigh and the Oklahoma City bombing. McVeigh destroyed one large building with only 2 tons, someone now has 30 tons. You don't take the risk of stealing 30 tons of ammonia nitrate if you're just going to use it for fertilizer. 

Yeah, SpaceX is not only doing fine,

Petty is all they know.  Feature, not bug.

Texas and Florida moving ass backwards at a break neck pace. They’ll be on par with Mississippi soon.

Of course it’s disproportionate compared to dino-burner tax. Three reasons:

Sabotaging buddy

Tesla sells a fraction of what actual car manufacturers sell and has completely squandered any lead they may have had in the EV market. SpaceX just blew up their rocket & destroyed the launch facility because man-child Musk insisted on launching on 4/20.

I wonder what Texas resident Elon Musk thinks about this? Suppose he’ll Tweet a criticism of Abbott? Think he’ll go against his new Republican buddies? 

Tim Cook understood Musk is just like Trump, a fragile narcissistic man child that is easy to manipulate by stroking their ego.