For Star subscribers: Gov. Katie Hobbs says it's an issue that EV owners don't pay Arizona's gasoline tax to help pay for road construction and maintenance.
Howard Fischer PHOENIX — Gov. Katie Hobbs wants state lawmakers to enact new laws to ensure that the drivers of electric vehicles pay their fair share for road construction and maintenance.Hobbs' willingness to take on the issue could provide some impetus for efforts that go back nearly a decade to equalize the taxes paid by motorists whose fuel comes from a charger with those who pay the state's 18-cents-a-gallon gas tax every time they fill up.
"I recognize this is a huge issue as we look at depletion of highway funds and to make sure that everyone who uses the highways are paying their fair share,'' she continued."And electric vehicles are a part of that.'' But finding a levy to compensate for the lack of fuel taxes paid for electric vehicles has proven elusive.
Technology aside, Williams questioned whether members of the public would be OK being tracked like truck drivers. Privacy issues citedBut Cook and supporters of a mileage tax have run headlong into the Arizona Freedom Caucus, a group of conservative lawmakers who say they fight government overreach. Cook said one alternative proposed by foes of a vehicle-mile fee that would help capture lost revenues would be a tax on electricity. But he said that is not an option, because it would mean"everybody gets a tax on electricity to pay for electric cars, even if you don't have one. It's not well thought out.''
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