The US state of Texas aims to introduce a new highway tax that should affect electric car owners, to compensate for the absence of the contribution (5 cents per litre) that is paid for highway maintenance through the purchase of fuel.
The bill presented by Republican Senator Robert Nichols, who is also chairman of the state transport commission, provides for a tax of up to 200 dollars a year, confirming that the diffusion of electric cars is causing concern (it has already happened in the Swiss Confederation and in Norway itself) due to the negative impact that the abandonment of heat engines – and therefore of fossil fuels – is having on tax revenues.
A plan to levy a tax on EV owners is currently under consideration by the state of Texas.
It has already been validated by the House of Representatives and will have to be definitively adopted by Governor Gregory Wayne, also a Republican.
Source: Ansa
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