Re: Hybrid Use Tax! On News Last Night.
Following the logic of the hybrid fuel-miser tax we should tax the 4 cylinder option extra over the V6. It also goes against what some states are trying to do by regulating CO2 emissions and offering extra tax breaks. When there are significant numbers of EVs and plug-in hybrids on the road (500,000+) then a system of taxation will have to be phased in to apply the road tax to the electric power used to charge the car (or yearly odometer readings + weight rate) so that they contribute to the system equitably, but normal hybrids burn gas, they don't source any electricity from elsewhere, there's only so much improvement in efficiency to be gained from combining electric motors and gasoline motors, in fact similar efficiency can be done with a normal ICE, but it would be missing the performance the electric motor(s) provide, the impact on tax revenue is nothing like a plug-in where liquid fuel may only be used on occasional long trips.
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