EV Annual Fee's due to Lost Gasoline Taxes

18 US States attach additional annual vehicle registration fee's to electric vehicles, such that our older Prius & Audi cost about $160 per year for tabs, while our 19 Nissan LEAF SV costs about $625 per year for tabs when I renew on the DOL website. 

This is because WA State justifies tacking on two different EV fee's because of "lost gasoline tax revenue" but the amount is the rip off since it makes me pay 20X more or ($600) of registration fee's than I would have paid in gasoline sales taxes, about $38 in gasoline taxes to fuel the Prius II that was replaced with the LEAF SV 40kWh that charges using electricity, about $400 of grid power per year. 

Consumer Reports found that $71 would be the maximum justifiable EV tax on annual vehicle registration fees at the state DOL's. Even $100 would be fair according to Meg and I, or an amount not worth complaining about. 

Talking heads in government claim to value eco-friendly changes to this or that, but in reality, they mostly care about money via taxation. Follow the money to see what people really care about! Every dollar spent a vote for something, a market vote much stronger than any stupid government law or dumb regulation. 

Through being cheated, abused, neglected, overtaxed and betrayed by high home prices, rising food prices, reduced buying power of the currency via inflation & other scams & fraud, I have become skeptical of governments, skeptical of taxation, skeptical or regulations & laws, skeptical of the evil perverts & weirdos in governments who want to lord power over other people.

I am especially skeptical of the US Federal Government because of the US National Debt Clock  <-click link to view it online.

Washington State EV taxes in King County are calculated based on the amount of gasoline taxes paid by someone driving a 17 MPG vehicle 15,000 miles per year, who would end up buying 883 gallons of fuel for around $4 per gallon, spending $3600 on gasoline.

I replace a 17 year old Toyota Prius II that got 46 miles per gallon & drive less than 8,000 miles per year. So to fuel my Prius only required about 177 gallons of fuel for about $700 per year in fuel costs. So now I am paying 20X more registration taxes than I would have otherwise paid from gasoline sales taxes, making the DOL EV fee's a scam to me.

The WA DOL and State of WA are just bitter about lost gasoline tax revenue because more local people are buying fuel efficient hybrids, plug-in hybrids, and battery electric vehicles. They should be giving air quality discounts on our DOL registration fees since charging the EV's does not result in tailpipe emissions locally while they are driven near and around where most people are breathing air!

The biggest benefit of EV use locally is the direct reduction in air pollution emissions where most people are breathing. This means that EV use improves public health where the EV's are regularly operated as replacements for fossil fueled vehicles that would have otherwise been emitting tailpipe pollutants toxic to the environmental & public health. 

EV owners who buy older used EV's should get discounts on their EV fees since people on limited incomes, working poor & lower income people like me who cannot afford a brand-new EV, who had to buy a used Nissan LEAF, they should not have to pay the same amount of EV taxes as someone who owns a new $100K long range Tesla Model S P100D or similar premium electric luxury car. 

Now Texas is charging a $200 EV fee annually on vehicle registration fee's added to the other base fee's. This gets back to what former CEO Carlos Goshen was saying about "The Infinite Ability of Governments to Invent New Forms of Taxation" since governments do not add value to the economy but simply tax value added economic activity, income, people & businesses to pay for governments who are wasteful with the monies collected. 

I want smaller smarter more cost-efficient government that operates on lean budgets with limited funding and less money, so taxes are lower & more money remains in the pockets of people who can spent it in the private sector creating value added services & product sales that generate tax revenue for the government as sales taxes or VAT taxes or similar business taxes.

In this case, with less government money, only people who are passionate about helping the public, would be motivated to serve in government, whereas it seems most people in governments today are interested in money they get through bribery, corruption, greedy unethical & immoral practices that are unspeakable or unsavory, many of which are also illegal & unconstitutional and would result in fines, jail time or imprisonment if a normal person engaged in the same behaviors.

It should be impossible for people to spend a lifetime in government. When people spend their entire lives as government officials, they become increasingly out of touch with realities faced by their constituency. With term limits, it forces people out of government and back into the real world. There should be income limits & financial transparency to reduce or eliminate people becoming wealthy by serving government jobs where large corporation often bribe diplomats at the highest levels of government.

Bribery, collusion, corruption & Crony Capitalism can be reduced in these ways. Thats why Donald Trump refused to publicly release his IRS tax filings. He knew that if the general public saw how he was able to pay virtually no personal income tax, it would anger working people who's employers withhold taxes from their pay, people who cannot generate the same kinds of tax breaks from IRS loopholes designed to benefit billionaires like Donald Trump. 

Does anyone recognize that the middle class in America has been progressively hollowed out by increasing income inequality, housing prices that have dramatically increased, food prices that have dramatically increased, the costs of most of life's basics have increased substantially over the last 10 years, much faster than wages or incomes.

This is called income inequality increasing or gentrification in the social sciences of demography & economic history who study how monies flow throughout time & place between peoples & different interests' groups or powers or states & businesses. Economics furthermore gives ample data about how the income gap increasing in America such that life becoming less affordable or more expensive as the currency keeps losing value and the interest rate keeps rising as the FED tries to limit hyperinflation this way. 

The inconsiderate talking heads in the Washington State Government claim to care about reducing air pollution and decarbonizing transportation, but then pass laws to collect additional taxation from electric vehicle owners. Thats a penalty exacted on people who choose to be early adopters of the first generation of electric vehicles. I am reminded of the documentary film "Who killed the electric car" 
Thats a counter force or anti-incentive to market forces that otherwise encourage electric vehicle sales.

The US Fed Government gives income tax discounts for EV purchases, even used EV purchases net a $4250 income tax discount at the IRS, while new EV purchases are eligible for a $7500 tax discount & some new EV purchases like the Chevy Equinox EV can get a $12,500 income tax discount since they have more than 300 miles of range per charge and qualify for the new 2024 EV purchase tax breaks at the IRS. It is the State Governments enacting these unreasonable EV registration fee additions. 

I hate government taxes, especially because of government debt spending, government corruption bribery & collusion that can be called Crony Capitalism, since the revolving back door between regulatory agencies & the big businesses they are supposed to control results in the legal use of toxic neonicotinoids that are causing bee colony collapse as the EPA turns a blind eye to this known documented well proven elucidated problem because of how profitable neonicotinoids sales are.

In the same way the EPA violates the Clean Air Act by allowing airlines & airports to emit horrendous amounts of toxic air pollutants that sicken people who live near airports with sound, light & chemical pollution from the turbine engine emissions of sound & air pollutants toxic to human lung & brain cells. 

I hate government in general more than I do for profit evil businesses. I like regular normal people who do not desire to lord power over other people. I like regular working people who just want to have a nice life, who are not cheating or stealing doing the wrong thing like so many government officials who stick their hands in the Social Security Money Pot to take that honey & line their pockets using cleaver legal trickery that's equivalent to theft from future generations, literally stealing from American babies that have not even been born yet. How gross & perverted is that? 

Texas Govenor Gregg Abbott should be ashamed of himself. They should increase gas taxes to offset the costs associated with fuel tax revenue losses. If we are going to phase out oil & gas in transportation to decarbonize transportation, then we need to increase fuel taxes to create market pressure to increase the adoption of battery electric vehicles, hydrogen fuel cell heavy duty vehicles, ammonia fuel vehicles and other emerging biofuels and clean fuels and renewable alternative fuels. 

Make the oil refineries pay air quality violation fees to compensate for lost fuel tax revenue. Charge higher air pollution taxes for degrading air quality near the refinery which is toxic to the refinery employees who breathe those fumes toxic to lung & brain cells. The explosion at the Texas City refinery was one of the biggest industrial accidents in US History, so the State of Texas should be actively encouraging its peoples to adopt electric vehicles.