On 9/12/2012 9:19 AM, Dave Smith wrote:
> On 12/09/2012 9:06 AM, sf wrote:
>
>> Just curious. With the cost of household electricity being so high...
>> how much does a full charge cost, how long does it last and how easy
>> is it to find a recharging station when they aren't at home?
>>
>
> It is one thing to be re-charging from your home, but what about people
> living in apartments and condos who are expecting their landlords or
> fellow condo owners to pay for the power to run their electric vehicles.
> Electric scooters are becoming more popular around here and I often
> see them plugged in at various places. For instance, someone at the town
> library rides to work on one and plus it in to charge all day. I don't
> know how much it costs, but it isn't really fair. They don't get free
> gasoline.

There are more implications than that. Most of the highway money comes
from road use tax applied on liquid fuels. So say you fill up your gas
tank and pay a bunch of taxes to maintain the roads and I plug my car in
and don't pay towards those same roads? And it even gets more bizarre
with the road use tax. In my state some of that money goes to subsidize
fares on SEPTA (Philly mass transit). I get that mass transit is a good
thing but why shouldn't its users pay the cost of a fare? Why should
someone who may never even go there pay for someone to use Philly mass
transit?