No, it wasn’t, I didn’t mention fairness because that is not my point at all

That you?:

In order to introduce this they needed to apply it to both ICE and EVs equally

Normal cars are taxed per your own calculations twice as much as EVs. That is far away from “equal” treatment but at least EVs owners now will START contributing.

You may have more cherries to pick somewhere.

Depends on what you are trying to achieve

It was you talking about fairness.

Also the heavier EV argument is a bit weak, they are not much heavier, and wear and tear when the roads that have to cope with 30ton lorries?

These 30t lorries are paying significantly more tax than normal vehicles, nevermind EVs. Would you perhaps prefer vehicles to be taxed according to their weight?

The road infrastructure needs to be maintained or we don’t get any deliveries, and the shops have no stock, it’s not just drivers that need the roads.

It is vehicles using the roads and vehicle owners/keepers (not “drivers”) paying the taxes - and rightly so.

if we are still going to charge a large amount of road tax to everyone on top.

This is how it works at the moment. Huge amount of tax is included in the fuel price. This is now being extended to EV which according to your estimate will be paying roughly half of what other road users are paying. This is more than fair - especially if you take into account EV are much heavier and are putting disproportionate pressure on the roads.

So, can you read?

needed to apply it to both ICE and EVs equally,

You mean to drop the fuel duty by 50%, and introduce EV charge in the same time, yes? That would be an equal treatment.

That I could agree with but you probably need to nearly double the amount.

The tax included in petrol is 53p (plus vat) so twice as much as the number you quoted. What you mean is that EV owners will need to start paying their share for using the roads.

You mean scrubs? No, it is fairly nornal.

So, can you read?

Why not a million? Fuck it, make it two. 🙄

Well over!

Doesn’t matter, nobody will believe you.

You don’t want to know what it’ll learn…

But left the ham.

In civilised countries that would be illegal. In the USA - I don’t know.

Still not volunteering.

Talking through a problem can help you solve it

Yup but I believe neither the article nor the person commenting before were referring to solvable (in the practical terms) problem.

We are talking about USians after all.

No. I am strongly against abducting children.