AI Summary:
“New Mexico’s Transportation Department plans to propose a 25-35% increase in vehicle registration fees and a new surcharge for electric vehicles to raise funds for road repairs. This proposal aims to address rising construction costs and declining revenues. Transportation Secretary Ricky Serna highlighted the need for these changes to maintain infrastructure, as fuel efficiency standards are reducing gas tax revenues significantly.”
Technology keeps increasing which means roads should be getting cheaper to repair, not more expensive. There should be no barriers on adopting EVs.
Infrastructure costs are a lie. Companies radically overcharge for it. That’s a place to start.
We shouldn’t have to pay for oil to pay for roads. Every single person benefits from roads, so they should be paid for via normal routes of taxation, not by “direct consumption”. That sort of tax is nonsense and hinders progress.
People say “I don’t own a car so why should I pay for it?” Really? Do you live in a city? Do you go shopping? Do you buy food? ALL of that access is due to vehicles.
Why should truckers pay for roads? They are transporting goods that satisfy a demand. We collectively bear the burden of maintaining this infrastructure.
Toll roads should all be abolished. Registration taxes should be abolished. All of this should be simplified.
Instead, people are coming up with absurd creative ways to “make EV drivers pay their fair share”. It is nonsense.