They want to tax hybrids in WA

ridiculous. regressive. bureaucrats. they should just raise the tax and encourage more conservation.

 

Do you celebrate April fools day a month early in the States? Surely this is a joke right?

 

Ridiculous... over reaching government at its worse.

 

Screw that.... time to move out of that backward state!

Sen. Mary Margaret Haugen proposed an annual $100 tax for electric car owners when they register their vehicles.

Mary your not helping, SDSTFU!!!

 

i sure hope so. wouldn't want something like that catching on around the country.

 

If that is the case, I am moving! How is this going to encourage people to buy an electric car if you have to pay for gasoline that you don't buy?

 

course, the article says electric cars, so, i'm not sure who said prius.

 

i like the prius pic. it says 'courtesy of toyota'. yeah, i bet they love having the prius next to that article.

 

Though even if they started to tax a Prius, I wonder if they would tax the Priuses that were on the road before this became enacted?

 

i suppose the leaf would qualify, but what about the volt? they get the tax credit, but it's not really an electric vehicle.

 

How about taxing all vehicles that weigh over 3 tons (metric or traditional)? Surely the heavier vehicle does more damage to the road surface?

 

excellent idea. around here, vehicles over a certain weight are not even allowed on the roads in winter.

 

The mileage tax that Oregon was looking into makes more sense to me.

 

Just because a lawmaker proposes a bill, does not mean that the bill will ever be written, presented, voted on, or approved.

Lots of things have been proposed to prop up our state's budget. This is just one of them...

 

That is a good idea, because there currently are a lot more vehicles over here that are over 3 tons than electric cars. I do remember a few years back during the Bush era that there was some kind of special deal about having a vehicle over 8500 pounds (4.5 tons). I think it was some sort of tax break, or that they did not have to meet standards of some sort. Maybe that is why there are cars on the road today that get 6 miles to the gallon. I wonder if that deal still exists?

 

Archaic thinking. You don't penalize for conservation & efficiency, you reward and encourage the move to more efficient, less polluting forms of transportation. At the same time you emphasize walking & bicycles, light & high speed rail. You de-emphasize individual vehicle use.

This same type of archaic thinking has been tried with water & energy conservation. It fails every time.