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by therealbilly 1481 days ago
The dirty little secret in England is that the government derives tremendous tax revenue out of gasoline taxes. Actually all of the European governments depend that revenue. What happens when EV’s take over?
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I imagine they will increase road tax or electricity tax or income tax. I don't think it's exactly a dirty secret. It all goes in a big pot.

It's about 4% of tax receipts which is a lot but also probably not that hard to make up by other means.