10-12-2018, 08:43 PM
There is a Tesla battery-charging station just off the freeway south of me, and I usually look down at it as I pass, and there seem to be at least three cars there every time I pass. It's very near one of those popular 'outlet malls'.
I think the constant condemnation of Tesla is due to the projected lack of income. Here in WA, we have one of the highest state gas taxes in the country: 49.4 cents per gallon. This does not include the federal tax of 18.4 cents per gallon. WA wanted to start charging electric-powered cars by the mile to make up for the loss of revenue. I don't think it passed, yet, but it probably will.
Many of the people here are old enough to remember clover-leaf interchanges. All of them have been torn down and rebuilt. I wonder what the cost of that was?
Near Tacoma WA, they were rebuilding the freeway, and due to poor/mistaken design, Part A and Part B weren't going to meet. How much did that cost? https://www.theolympian.com/news/local/a...57373.html
Politicians like infrastructure, because they can always get a cut. Gasless cars would be bad, bad news.
I think the constant condemnation of Tesla is due to the projected lack of income. Here in WA, we have one of the highest state gas taxes in the country: 49.4 cents per gallon. This does not include the federal tax of 18.4 cents per gallon. WA wanted to start charging electric-powered cars by the mile to make up for the loss of revenue. I don't think it passed, yet, but it probably will.
Many of the people here are old enough to remember clover-leaf interchanges. All of them have been torn down and rebuilt. I wonder what the cost of that was?
Near Tacoma WA, they were rebuilding the freeway, and due to poor/mistaken design, Part A and Part B weren't going to meet. How much did that cost? https://www.theolympian.com/news/local/a...57373.html
Politicians like infrastructure, because they can always get a cut. Gasless cars would be bad, bad news.
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