To fix the potholes and crumbling roads, federal, state and local governments rely on fuel taxes, which raise more than US$80 billion a year and pay for around three-quarters of what the U.S. spends on building new roads and maintaining them.
I recently purchased an electric car, the Tesla Model 3. While swerving down a particularly rutted highway in New York, the economist in me began to wonder, what will happen to the roads as fewer and fewer cars run on gasoline? Who will pay to fix the streets?
Will toll roads become universal to bridge the funding gap?
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Tuesday February 26 2019, @04:44PM (7 children)
Too late already down-under. [abc.net.au]
If they continue to raise the electricity prices, I'm gonna buy batteries and disconnect from the power grid; it'll be more cost effective.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Tuesday February 26 2019, @05:14PM (1 child)
Isn't that antisocial? Probably racissss too!
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Tuesday February 26 2019, @09:58PM
Nope, just asocial.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 2) by Whoever on Tuesday February 26 2019, @05:43PM (4 children)
Did you even read the article that you linked to? The price rises appear to be unrelated to taxation -- in fact, there has been a reduction in taxes on electricity.
(Score: 2) by pipedwho on Tuesday February 26 2019, @09:18PM
The price rises are because they sold off the public electricity infrastructure to the private sector. And naturally when you have no real competition or repercussions, you raise prices as much as you can get away with. There are legal limits to the price hikes, but like toll roads they are well above the inflation rate here in Au.
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Tuesday February 26 2019, @09:35PM (2 children)
And? How's that relevant for how much I pay on electricity?
You reckon if the price gonna go up because of taxes is gonna make less a hole in my pocket?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 2) by Whoever on Wednesday February 27 2019, @03:43AM (1 child)
Sigh.
Go back to your original post:
See, your post was in the context of taxes rising on electricity and you wrote that it was "Too late", implying that taxes had already caused an increase in taxes on electricity.
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Wednesday February 27 2019, @03:59AM
Sigh
(I'll let aside the "taxes had already caused an increase in
taxesprices on electricity")No, what I'm implying is "with so high prices already, any increase will immediately be noticed, because many people - myself included - are already on the edge of their patience with this shite!" (in contrast with "people will barely notice").
Is it clearer now?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford