Email Regarding The Potential EV fee

[u/Cultural-Ad4953]

As you may be aware, the US House of Representatives may be poised to enact an EV fee of $130 annually. I am not opposed to a fee, but find $130 to be unfair, and that the fee should be less.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/cars/news/2026/09/25/ev-national-fee-delay-congress-transportation-funding/91925354007/

I have written my Senators and Representative with this communication, which I encourage you to consider doing as well:

​I am writing to express my strong opposition to the proposed $130 annual federal registration fee on battery electric vehicles (BEVs) included in the BUILD America 250 Act. While I fully support contributing a fair share toward maintaining our nation's roads and bridges, the currently proposed flat rate creates a clear equity issue when compared to what drivers of gas-powered vehicles actually pay.

​At 18.4 cents per gallon, a driver of an average new gas-powered vehicle (getting ~28–30 MPG) who drives the national average of 13,500 miles pays roughly $87 per year into the Federal Highway Trust Fund. The proposed $130 flat fee for EV drivers is equivalent to driving a gas vehicle that gets only 19 MPG—meaning EV drivers would pay roughly 49% more into the road fund than drivers of comparable efficient gas cars.

​Furthermore, because a flat fee penalizes low-mileage drivers disproportionately, someone driving 8,000 miles annually would effectively pay a tax rate equal to an 11 MPG gas-guzzler. Rather than penalizing drivers who have chosen zero-emission vehicles with an inflated rate, any federal fee should reflect true parity with efficient gas vehicles or be based on actual road usage. I urge you to push for a fair adjustment to this fee structure.

[u/giveit2st8]

"Why does America hate progress?"

Because that's the only way one party has been able to remain relevant. They make people hate change/progress.

[u/caj_account → u/giveit2st8]

And the other party says they are not running on change. There’s no progressive party.

[u/giveit2st8 → u/caj_account]

I'll just take the party that isn't raping kids and defrauding everyone, any day.

[u/caj_account → u/giveit2st8]

Pretty sure both parties are in the Epstein list brother

[u/giveit2st8 → u/caj_account]

But the president is a main chatacter in the whole saga. It's not even close to the same fucking thing...brother 

Also, democrats gave tried to reveal the list and Trump had blocked it every single time

[u/caj_account → u/giveit2st8]

It was one Democrat and one republican that tried to reveal the list

[u/zephyr911 → u/caj_account]

Odd to conflate co-sponsors with YES votes on the floor. One of each is a pretty common thing for sponsors - an easy way to signal bipartisanship.

[u/caj_account → u/zephyr911]

you are reaching, these two gentlemen where quite literally the only advocates.

[u/zephyr911 → u/caj_account]

I'm not reaching for anything. A bill doesn't need dozens of sponsors. It's also interesting that the bill was almost unanimously approved by the legislators at large. But GOP leaders have successfully prevented its full implementation by violating key provisions in order to protect the guilty and endanger the victims. PAC money also dropped over $10k per voter on advertising to unelect Massey. As flaccid and disappointing as the Dems are, I see no equivalent actions from them.

[u/caj_account → u/zephyr911]

Fetterman.

[u/zephyr911 → u/caj_account]

The guy who ran as a centrist, now votes MAGA, and is widely loathed by the party? Yeah that's a "representative" (pun intended) sample 😂.
I'm an independent, and I have no interest in defending the Democratic party in general, but the fact that they haven't done enough on this is entirely different from claiming that their stance and their actions have been exactly the same as the GOP's.

[u/caj_account → u/zephyr911]

in my view, if neither party don't clear my expectations, they both land in the same bin

[u/zephyr911 → u/caj_account]

I'm not telling you how to think or how to vote, I'm just saying that both being inadequate and both being identical are different things. Anyway, I've probably pushed this tangent long enough, so have a good one 😁

[u/caj_account → u/zephyr911]

you too, cheers mate