Comments on: Electric Cars and the Future of the Gas Tax http://la.streetsblog.org/2009/08/12/electric-cars-and-the-future-of-the-gas-tax/ Covering Los Angeles's livable streets movement Tue, 07 Feb 2012 14:06:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: limit http://la.streetsblog.org/2009/08/12/electric-cars-and-the-future-of-the-gas-tax/comment-page-1/#comment-22191 limit Fri, 14 Aug 2009 04:58:07 +0000 http://la.streetsblog.org/?p=7401#comment-22191 As far as I recall only one institution has successfully valued / appraised the benefits versus the detriments of infrastructure improvements. That institution would be the Department of Transportation and lower level agencies that are related. FHWA, FTA, ... I have strong doubts that an apt analysis can be derived from value increase of land. As far as I recall only one institution has successfully valued / appraised the benefits versus the detriments of infrastructure improvements. That institution would be the Department of Transportation and lower level agencies that are related. FHWA, FTA, …

I have strong doubts that an apt analysis can be derived from value increase of land.

]]> By: debt relief http://la.streetsblog.org/2009/08/12/electric-cars-and-the-future-of-the-gas-tax/comment-page-1/#comment-21871 debt relief Thu, 13 Aug 2009 15:40:48 +0000 http://la.streetsblog.org/?p=7401#comment-21871 i cant wait to get my prius. it is gonna save me so much on gas i cant wait to get my prius. it is gonna save me so much on gas

]]> By: DJB http://la.streetsblog.org/2009/08/12/electric-cars-and-the-future-of-the-gas-tax/comment-page-1/#comment-21811 DJB Thu, 13 Aug 2009 14:58:06 +0000 http://la.streetsblog.org/?p=7401#comment-21811 The gas tax needs to be raised to get people to stop wasting gas and destroying the environment (i.e. to get them to consider alternative modes of transportation, move closer to work, and/or buy more efficient vehicles). When things are cheap, people waste them. People should be forced to pay (i.e. take responsibility for) for their own pollution. If transportation were electrified, I'd have much less of a problem paying for transportation through general taxation. (Which raises the related issue of where does the electricity come from, to which the answer is usually fossil fuels, to which I say we need carbon taxes on electricity too for the same reasons we need them for gasoline). Isn't a charge based on the value increase of land basically just like a property tax increase (this has and equity implications if the costs get passed on to, say, renters)? It's a complex set of issues, but I say tax the pollution to pay for the solution and pay for clean transportation in the long run out of some progressive form of general taxation. The gas tax needs to be raised to get people to stop wasting gas and destroying the environment (i.e. to get them to consider alternative modes of transportation, move closer to work, and/or buy more efficient vehicles). When things are cheap, people waste them. People should be forced to pay (i.e. take responsibility for) for their own pollution.

If transportation were electrified, I’d have much less of a problem paying for transportation through general taxation. (Which raises the related issue of where does the electricity come from, to which the answer is usually fossil fuels, to which I say we need carbon taxes on electricity too for the same reasons we need them for gasoline).

Isn’t a charge based on the value increase of land basically just like a property tax increase (this has and equity implications if the costs get passed on to, say, renters)?

It’s a complex set of issues, but I say tax the pollution to pay for the solution and pay for clean transportation in the long run out of some progressive form of general taxation.

]]> By: Alek F http://la.streetsblog.org/2009/08/12/electric-cars-and-the-future-of-the-gas-tax/comment-page-1/#comment-21801 Alek F Thu, 13 Aug 2009 14:56:50 +0000 http://la.streetsblog.org/?p=7401#comment-21801 If only Obama would stop shoving cars up into our a**es, and focus on Public Transportation for a change, it would really help! It's pathetic that, after so many years of witnessing how Automobiles have brought us to nothing except enormous air pollution, gridlocks, and degraded social life, our government still can't make a smart move from Cars to Public Transportation... Very sad. If only Obama would stop shoving cars up into our a**es,
and focus on Public Transportation for a change,
it would really help!
It’s pathetic that, after so many years of witnessing how
Automobiles have brought us to nothing except enormous air pollution, gridlocks, and degraded social life, our government still can’t make a smart move from Cars to Public Transportation…
Very sad.

]]> By: Derek http://la.streetsblog.org/2009/08/12/electric-cars-and-the-future-of-the-gas-tax/comment-page-1/#comment-21611 Derek Thu, 13 Aug 2009 00:04:16 +0000 http://la.streetsblog.org/?p=7401#comment-21611 There would be no need to "push consumers into new electric cars" if the gas tax accounted for all negative externalities of gas usage. The gas tax is broken and needs to be fixed. A mileage tax, replacing part (but only part) of the gas tax, is also needed to account for the cost of using the road. It should be based on the axle load of the vehicle so that owners of Hummers and other heavy vehicles pay their fair share. There would be no need to “push consumers into new electric cars” if the gas tax accounted for all negative externalities of gas usage. The gas tax is broken and needs to be fixed.

A mileage tax, replacing part (but only part) of the gas tax, is also needed to account for the cost of using the road. It should be based on the axle load of the vehicle so that owners of Hummers and other heavy vehicles pay their fair share.

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