re: Louisiana now charges road usage fee for electric and hybrid vehicles

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Obviously depends on where I am. I can say that for trips to the panhandle, I fill up in BR and that gets me to the condo, all of the driving around during the trip, and about halfway back (if I wanted to). Instead of driving halfway back and waiting until I'm empty, I drive back up to the interstate, usually with about a quarter of a tank left, and fill back up so I can make the drive back home and still have about half a tank for the work week.

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So 10,000 miles a year. With 2/3rds of that in Louisiana.

6,666 miles in Louisiana at 45 miles per gallon is 148 gallons.

148 gallons at .20 cents of tax per gallon is around $30 a year. Plus your state fee of $60 comes out to $90.

If I do that same math on a truck for 6,666 miles that gets 20 MPG it comes out to around $67.

Congrats on having to pay a measly $23 more a year.