A radical new approach to road tax

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Originally Posted by Offgrid

Main main point is that road maintenance should be perfomed by a government agency, and not just funded from the bit of money that is left over from supporting bankers, big pharnma, and other supra national organisations like the military industrial combine.

I understand that about 50% of our electricity that is used to power EVs, comes from the burning of fossil fuels, and probably more if you include ancient forests. I wonder how much road fuel tax the electricity generation companies pay.

100%, nationalised infrastructure maintenance but run efficiently as if it was a competitive capitalist sector, we could also include training, placements etc for everything from brickies to engineers and architects that way. Get young people involved in building the country so make tangible ties with the land they live on

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Originally Posted by Offgrid

I understand that about 50% of our electricity that is used to power EVs, comes from the burning of fossil fuels, and probably more if you include ancient forests. I wonder how much road fuel tax the electricity generation companies pay.

You say this as though various government agencies aren't busily cooking-up ways to put taxes on electrons used in cars, including the ones generated in an environmentally-friendly way based on the power of love.

It's already going to be not-a-problem in a short number of years. Or it will be a problem depending on your perspective.