The Democrats want to spend another $3 Trillion on "infrastructure". Used to be "infrastructure" was concrete things like Interstate Highways, dams, bridges, levees, stuff you could see and touch and was anchored in concrete, not liable to moving to another state. Apparently this "infrastruction" bill has serious money for a bunch of stuff that is not really "infrastructure". And to pay for this extravagance the Democrats were proposing new taxes on cars and mileage. The Democrat advocating the new taxes said that the traditional federal gas tax was obsolete. Presumably he believed that battery cars were running on the public roads tax free because they don't use gasoline. That's a stretch, actually fake news. Most of the cars on the road today still run on gasoline or diesel. In all my days I have only seen (and ridden in) just ONE battery car. It was owned by an old high school classmate, something of a gadget freak, named David Biddle. Biddle's idea of an afternoon's entertainment was to take his battery car down to the local mall, where they had a free 440 volt charging station. While the car sucked up juice we walked around the mall and spent money.
So, I don't believe we need to replace the gas tax just to nail the very very few battery cars on the road.
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