You’re picking nits. These fees are because you’re not paying gas tax. It’s to make up for the gas tax. At some point in the future you’ll be paying more than if you paid the gas tax, like in NJ. But you can say you’re not paying gas tax.
One hour? Sometimes that’s worth it for a more pleasurable drive. But when I looked at how far west you were, I’m not so sure. Not a route I would take. But hey, I don’t pay these tolls.
A gas tax by any other name is just as much money. Your brother is paying the State for the privilege to drive his car on the roads even though he buys no gas. And as fewer and fewer people buy gas vehicles and more and more buy EVs, the price he pays for that privilege will go up and up. Sucker.
Allan is an absolutist. He believes because his brother buys no gas that he pays nothing to drive on the roads and highways. Libs are so easily deceived by their masters.
Come July first EV drivers will be paying more than people paying the gas tax in NJ. But hey, they don’t pay the gas tax. As long as they keep thinking that, the ski is the limit for EV tax.
The tinfoil hat crowd says it’s not getting you into EVs that they want. They don’t want you driving at all.
But now with this in place, why would you buy an ICE vehicle in California now? If every year the gallon is going up by 50 cents, it doesn’t make sense. By 2035 it would be at around 10 dollars a gallon. I guess they also don’t want any out of state traffic coming in either. No one is paying 10 bucks a gallon.
The smart decision would be to move out of state, as many have. You won’t have full control of any EV you own, with rolling blackouts and the state siphoning your battery whenever they choose.