lol, “More” < “Correct”. I value fixing things over bodging them. I fully expect that any attempt to address this issue will certainly be a bodge because our government knows no other way to be, but I will still root for cures over treatments. 

Or just replace the gas tax that hasn’t been updated in 30 years. They will get used to it just as quickly.

I want lighter EVs, so I vote for the same weight charges for both ICE and EV. 

That effectively only tracks when people enter or leave a state. It does not provide any data about how many miles are driven within any given state. To make every single road in the US a toll road would cost billions to implement. 

lol, at registration time yes, but there should not be any GPS tracker to opt out of. Odometer reading at registration or keep the status quo.

Most states have figured out that weigh stations cost a lot to build, maintain and man. You’d have to make the income from this venture not only balance the removal of the taxes on diesel, but also pay for the weigh stations. The entire trucking industry will lobby against that harder than the NRA lobbying against…

People will be shocked at how low the price is anyway.

I doubt it, especially if they make the corrections that should’ve been made to the gas tax over the last 30 years at the same time. $0.184/gal corrected for inflation would be more than double that now at $0.386/gal. And it would be a lump sum. Some back of the…

Not in my opinion. Wear and tear on the public infrastructure is a function of weight and miles driven. In this case, it puts EV’s on a level playing field. If you want EV’s to cost less, make them lighter. 

Miles driven out of state has already been addressed above. Charging by KWH charged might help, but only at public chargers because home chargers are not required to be networked. If I bought an EV and installed a charger it certainly would not be networked without a damn good reason (hypothetical future laws…

First, I am firmly against GPS trackers in vehicles for this purpose... or any other purpose really, unless it is the owner placing it there for theft recovery (like I have in my motorcycle).

I am struggling to find a good statistic to support my belief, but I nonetheless believe the percentage of out of state miles…

IMO, they should completely overhaul that part of the system and ditch the gas tax entirely. Charge each registering vehicle per mile driven based on weight, regardless of ICE, hybrid, or EV. The only hurdle I see is out-of-state miles where ICE/hybrids would be taxed twice but that’s mostly an issue with big trucks. 

The All-Electric Ram 1500 Rev Looks Great and Makes a Ton of Sense

More of a general comment about how laws and regulations tend to start as pet projects by one or more politicians that support their views with cherry-picked data and no context. Not so much a comment about this specific example.

They said the same thing about auto high-beams... and I’ve needed to turn that feature off in every vehicle I’ve owned or driven that had it because it’s garbage. I miss the ability to option out features I don’t want instead of being stuck with the standard features most people seem to want, which this shit will…

More shit I don’t need and lower MTBF due to increased component counts. I’d rather just have headlights from 10-15 years ago. 

Needs to fit in tight spots and hold 4 adults and a dog?

Two motorcycles... one with a side-car. 

My current vehicle gets extremely butt-pucker when taking corners in town during or after a rain or even morning dew. If you touch a manhole cover or road paint with any kind of speed there’s a good chance you’ll just crash.

My vehicle is a Honda CB500X, but since it’s my only vehicle I think it still counts. 

hear hear

Nope, I first think of removing their obviously defective genes from the gene pool for the good of humanity. 

Context is usually the first victim when a politician decides to quote a study to justify their goal.