From what I can see most EV drivers have no problem with paying some kind of road tax which would have otherwise come out of the taxes on fossil fuel use.

The issue is the method and the amount. IMO this should be something proportional to the annual mileage and could be paid at insurance time or from a tax on commercial/public charging stations.

The reason governments have not opted for this simple method and made it a direct and exorbitant charge is because they want to penalize EV drivers for not burning fossil fuels. ie these governments are captives of the fossil industry.

Im looking at you Alberta and Saskatchewan!

#ev #abpoli #skpoli

It is absolutely amazing how many people have no clue what the first few verses of the famous anti-Nazi poem, "First they came for..." was:

First they came for the Communists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Communist
Then they came for the Socialists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Socialist
Then they came for the trade unionists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a trade unionist

It seems people only know the last two verses:

Then they came for the Jews
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Jew
Then they came for me
And there was no one left
To speak out for me

#fascism #uspol #cdnpoli #abpoli #ableg