Originally posted by mudguts
Rego will NEVER cover the costs.
The motor vehicle is just too simple a (tax structure) to let it go gentle in the good night.
The will be a massive hole that will need to be filled.
So increase the ICE costs to a diminishing base or tax the new kids on the block (or increase the GST for all & sundry). your choice.
If you are looking to move to electric cars for the CO2 reduction to save the planet - good luck with that.
There is debate as to is actual value in CO2 reduction cradle to grave (& if the savings are so nominal why bother & it certainly is not a clear cut winner)
If we really want to save the planet - why not just give billions of dollars to the lungs of the planet.
We already have a carbon sink in Amazon & Congo (et al jungles). Just stop them cutting down the tress for economic value. Would be cheaper.
In you are on the electric band wagon then I welcome you to the support for Nuclear power stations to save the planet as there is no other viable alternative.
Bureau of stats say the income was at $27b (& shrinking). We either have to replace this or reduce living standard (FWIW this money is not JUST spent on the roads).
its already being looked at - extract from Bureau of Stats
Possible solutions
Infrastructure Australia recommends reform to the whole system; that is, that all existing government road use taxes and charges be removed and replaced with ‘direct charging that reflects each user’s own consumption of the network, including the location, time and distance of travel, and the individual characteristics of their vehicle such as weight and environmental impact.’
This system is also recommended by
Infrastructure Partnerships Australia, which says it ‘offers strong opportunities to rationally price access to, and usage of, the road network—providing a mechanism to fund network additions, fund maintenance and improve network performance by aligning supply and demand.’ Australia motoring lobby group, the
Australian Automobile Association is in favour of this reform.
Other policy options include the introduction of zone pricing, particularly in cities, and corridor-specific charging.
Zone pricing
Zone pricing (also known as a congestion charge or tax) charges road users to use certain road systems. Zone pricing has broad support from economists, and has been implemented in a number of places, notably in London, Singapore and Stockholm.
Corridor-specific charging
Corridor-specific charging, works in the same as
city toll roads. A fee is levied on users who access a particular road, much the same way as a toll road, except the corridor may be publicly, rather than privately, owned.
Don’t you get the problem at the moment ? There’s too many bloody cars on the roads with only 1 person in them and spewing out pollution, purely because people such as your good self resist change and think of silly reasons why what you currently do is best. When the penny drops and people realise that there’s perfectly good alternate options than starting and stopping a car within an hour twice a day and paying parking for the privilege then maybe money can be spent on more logical solutions such as better public transport rather than ring roads etc to appease the grid lock and to get a few votes.
......Which you by the way confirmed in the size of the battery pack.
