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

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3. The entire conversation is silly because we are comparing a new tax to a gasoline excise tax that hasn’t been increased since 1990. That $0.20/gallon excise tax in 1990 would be $0.48/gallon today if it were adjusted for inflation alone (without even looking at fuel economy increases). But it’s not, and our roads are woefully underfunded as a result. We shouldn’t be using the 1990 gas tax as a measuring stick in the first place because they all need to increase. But here we are.

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Addressing this, as the rest of your post has mostly been addressed already, I imagine while you were typing it out

But as to this bit, I don't disagree with you. Well, frick taxes in general, but yes in that the gas tax hasn't kept up.

Now go have a politician raise the gas tax so much as five cents and listen to all of these "conservatives" wail and gnash their teeth.

And that's the whole point of this thread. Again, I don't actually give a shite about the $60. This was just to have a bit of fun while enjoying my Saturday morning coffee while listening to the birds sing for the first time in days after all of this fricking rain