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Congress Wants You To Pay $130 A Year Just To Drive An Electric Car (insideevs.com)
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[–] stoy@lemmy.zip 3 points 15 hours ago

It is always far easier to accept a new change if it is combined with a group of larger changes, than to try and implement a new change on it's own.

If this type of tax had been implemented right from the start when modern EVs came on the market it would simply be a small part of the calculation of owning an EV.

Waiting until now, and you get this kind of response, waiting further will not improve the public opinion.