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US EV Fees Point to a Looming Policy Challenge
29 Aug 2023 | Abstracted from American Prospect
"...a new trend: electric-vehicle owners in Texas getting notices in the mail to pay $200-a-year fees to register their cars. It sounded like a brazen effort to hinder the transition away from fossil fuels"...it’s reasonable to see this rush to levy fees on EV users as an attempt at discouraging EV purchases...A rough estimate shows that Texas's EV fees come to more than twice the average Texan's gas taxes"
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