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Originally Posted by 68style
The part that blows me away, is that as taxpayers we have all been subsidizing the shit out of everyone's electric car purchases... and they're all driving on the same roads as us... but besides subsidizing their purchases, they're also contributing absolutely nothing in taxes towards the roads/road maintenance... which is most of the tax in gasoline.
And they get carpool status on top of it all. I mean talk about a free fuckin ride.
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You don't get it.
That's EXACTLY the gov't intention. You can have your favorite ICE car all you want. But keep that as your weekend toy car. There's no reason for anyone to continue to commute using ICE cars when it comes to new commute car purchases. The very idea is to make it very costly/inconvenient for people to continue driving ICE cars.
BC has enough power generation capacity through its hydro-electric system that more often than not, we net-export our power generation to US and Alberta. Should they/us have no need for the power generated, they just go to waste.
Gas or petro, otoh, are all mostly imported from elsewhere. This generates very little economic benefit for BC.
So, by keeping the green objective and everything into consideration, it's in BC gov't's best interest to continue to accelerate the transition to EV. We are among the top in North America, but we are barely scratching 10% of all new cars.