| Average car gets 24.4 mpg, while federal gas tax is currently $0.183 / gallon. US drivers average 13,476 miles (across gender / age groups). So currently gas tax is ~$101.07 (for "cars", more for light trucks.) As someone who drives 5000-6000 miles a year in an EV, I don't love $130 flat rate, but it's not far enough from the average gas tax to be wildly upsetting to me. In my state, though, I'm already paying $250 / year, or about $0.04/mile. Gas tax here is $0.576/gallon which comes out to ~$318.12 annually, or $0.024 / mile for an "average" gas driver (using figures above). If I drove a more average amount, it would be inline. As others have discussed, the trade-off of a flat fee is not having to devise ways to grant your exact miles driven data to the government, and the taxes are close enough to the gas taxes that I'm not going to be up in arms about it. I save way more than that having virtually no powertrain maintenance. (My state inspection was 15 minutes and $40. Basically they said, yup, it has tires.) https://afdc.energy.gov/data/10310 https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/ohim/onh00/bar8.htm https://www.pa.gov/agencies/dmv/vehicle-services/road-user-c... https://www.pa.gov/agencies/revenue/resources/tax-rates/moto... |