Amiga.org Electrified.

[nicholas]

Cost should not be a long-term consideration for anyone purchasing an EV vehicle.  Government's natural tendency is to spend.  When you reduce purchasing fuel, or stop out-right, you reduce the amount of taxes collected for "roads."  (Quotes because the money is hardly ever used strictly for roads, just like your social security tax is not actually kept in a trust account with your name on it.)  When that happens, electric rates will have to increase or, as in some states, EV drivers will pay an additional tax to register their vehicles or we'll all be imposed a mileage tax.

As another example, municipally-owned utilities which encourage extreme conservation* more often than not increase rates because the governing authority becomes starved of revenue.

* Conservation means to not waste, it does not mean to go without.  (Paraphrasing a quote I saw a while back.)

I take it you don't pay a separate Road Tax over there like in the UK?

[nicholas]

No.  Roughly 1/3 of our price of gas is county, state, and federal taxes.  (Some localities are higher.)

About 99.999999% of Petrol price in the UK is tax. lol

[nicholas]

Yup!  I've heard that.  We fight like hell to keep our prices down, even where they are today, only to be denigrated and maligned for doing so.  Ah, well.

As long as the Saudi puppets keep getting supplied with cheap coke and hookers your fuel will be cheap.

[nicholas]

Then I expect prices to go up, again, as we just took 79 minor hookers out of circulation.

Those Saudi scumbags can't get enough, I'm sure whichever three letter acronym is responsible for keeping them supplied will find some more fresh meat for them.