The big news from the Chris Hipkins government is that they’re raising petrol tax again.
That's right... they were just giving us a discount on the tax 2 months ago and now they are going in the opposite direction.
From next year they’ll start hiking phasing in 12 cents a litre hike
Why?
Well because we’ve got to pay to fix the potholes
That’s what that petrol tax pays for.
So do the road user charges that the drivers of diesel cars pay.
But the EV owners pay nothing
They are driving on our roads for free and have been since the first EV hit New Zealand.
Their exception period is due to run out April next year so you would think they are going start paying in about eight months.
But no... don’t be so sure
More news out today is that officials are concerned about doing it
They are worried about noncompliance and the system not coping
I’ve had enough of this, haven’t you?
This might have made back when there were about 100 EVs and the government was hell bent on convincing people to buy them
But there are 85,000 on the road.
They create more potholes that your average petrol or diesel vehicle because they are heavier.
They are more likely to be owned by wealthy people than poor people
And it is just obscene to allow wealthier people to drive for free while charging poorer people more to fix potholes
And we already give these guys a subsidy to buy the cars
We are short nearly a billion dollars that we need to get the roads up to scratch and the day that most of us being told we’re going to pay more in petrol tax.
It is insulting not be told the EV owners will pay too.
Make the EV owners pay like the rest of us.
Heather du Plessis-Allan is a journalist and commentator who hosts Newstalk ZB's Drive show.
2 comments:
How do other countries charge them? We succeed in a mileage charge on diesels.
Do we have too ny skilled programmers?
More warped "progressive" socialist thinking from Chippy and the gang.
Isn't it weird that before the Banana Bunch got into power we had no trouble repairing our roads.
Yet, with even more petrol tax we can't keep up with all the potholes now. Now where did we waste that money, again?
They're like a bank who rents out safety deposit boxes. But with Chippybank you pay to hire the box but when you finally go back to retrieve your valuables they've gone.
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