Judith Browning

thank you!
for the information and the very useful link.

here's a current link to the site itself.
https://www.graphyte.com/

Sounds like they are 'sequestering' carbon and selling carbon credits to polluters.

Does anyone know the political climate for electric cars with the new administration?
I thought I heard that much of Biden's work promoting them has been undone already.

Christopher Weeks wrote:Yeah, I see what you're saying. Accounting for mileage seems like the way to go, but I'm not sure how those data would be collected. In AR, do you have to take the car for annual safety/emissions inspection? Maybe the recorded mileage at the time of inspection could play into the annual fees.

I'm not sure why but inspections were dropped here years ago.
We had so many old clunkers on their last legs that those inspections were a comedy routine but we usually managed to pass.

We finally have a car that is reliable and somewhat less of a footprint than our old gas guzzlers and affordable to drive.
AND we are on a fixed income so every bit of it matters.

Steve thinks they dropped inspections here because of cost...might be before Clinton was governor.

It's a state by state thing...many do not charge extra for driving an electric or hybrid.

Then, maybe a more fair way might be to tax/ penalize by number of miles driven?
We are lightweights as far as road use.

We have a hybrid...a Ford CMax 2016.
We have been 'penalized' $100 each year for 5 years tacked on to our tag renewal which is $27.  The past two years it was $50 each year.
The states argument is that it's because we don't buy as much gas thus don't pay enough road tax 🙄

We like the car and suppose it will last as long as we need a car...hopefully another 10 years or so.  My eyesight is too far gone for driving but so far Steve's is good.
We drive 20- 60 miles once a week and  a 200 mile round trip every couple months.

I've heard of rewards for driving electric, rebates or something, but punishment seems underhanded...do other  states do this?

We live in the previously blue, currently very red state of Arkansas and expect this to get worse even though the state has lithium mining in the south and one would expect some support for electric cars and hybrids?

I appreciate the thoughtful discussion and explanations in this thread.

I hope not too off topic to ask those who are trying to buy local, does that mean locally made or just local stores and outlets?

We really have no local manufacturing in our area other than many craftsmen and women.

Matt,
thank you for your explanation.

 Well... there is one part of this that is political... which I can't discuss here.

 Again... this is only half of it. The other half is for political leverage.  

We're in the 'ulcer factory' so maybe it's ok?
Antagonistic political posturing has always been with us, I just don't agree with it as a way to get along globally with our fellow passengers on this planet earth.

Elanor Gardner wrote:Trump may have already got what he wanted with the statement, as Trudeau and some cabinet members have resigned. Job done, most likely if I had to guess.

And this was a goal because....?