| ▲ | SugarReflex 8 hours ago |
| Can they do the same thing with fuel prices? |
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| ▲ | dymk 8 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| Solar panels (which continue get cheaper every year) on my house makes charging my low-TCO EV free in 5 years |
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| ▲ | elmer2 6 hours ago | parent [-] | | Until you start getting taxed. | | |
| ▲ | dymk 6 hours ago | parent [-] | | How do you figure that works? | | |
| ▲ | Supermancho 6 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | Solar panels added to a grid is not plug and play. When you're connecting solar to a municipal grid (which is what most homes are connected to), it could theoretically be taxed or even subjected to a tariff. The "added" power (often excess) is monitored for billing credits/payout/other, among other reasons like grid integrity. | | |
| ▲ | dymk 3 hours ago | parent [-] | | Plenty of grids have different sorts of net metering ratios, grid maintenance fees, etc. But it's nothing compared to what you'd be paying taking power off of the grid, and there is a break-even period often measured in single-digit years. I still do not understand the point of what the GP was trying to make w.r.t. "taxes". |
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| ▲ | iAMkenough 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Voters vote for Republicans that drive up TCO for EVs, like higher annual registration fees. | | |
| ▲ | qwerpy 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | Strange, I lived in very blue states (WA and CA) and they definitely punish EV owners with large annual surcharges on registrations. To offset “not paying gas tax”. Money is money, red or blue, they will all take as much as they can from you. | | |
| ▲ | scheme271 35 minutes ago | parent [-] | | TBH, roads and highways are paid for by gas tax and it effectively functions as a usage tax. Something similar for EVs wouldn't be too wild. |
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| ▲ | dwattttt 8 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| If you make it easy for lots of people to make the fuel, yes. EVs and smaller scale power generation anyone? |
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| ▲ | verdverm 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| That would likely require innovation in a renewable liquid fuel that can work at scale. Electrification will drive the demand for oil down, making the overhead more expensive per gallon, and eventually we will largely move off of fossil fuels, though I don't expect completely. It will be many decades due to the turnover times for industrial/commercial transportation systems. |
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| ▲ | YetAnotherNick 8 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| Yes if China somehow gets the fuel and subsidize it to sell it for cheaper in the global world, even the gulf state price will go down. |
