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California 's electric vehicle owners, who are disproportionately wealthy, are also tax dodgers.
The money the state should be collecting would battle climate change, by funding transit and transportation projects.
Each car generates about $260 a year in taxes via gasoline to fuel the state’s transportation system.
The gas tax isn’t high enough to provide the necessary money for our transportation needs or to motivate Californians to buy electric cars, and nobody in the halls of power is in a hurry to do anything about it. When it comes to tough choices to deal with climate change, California simply isn’t leading..
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