- Nov 20, 2009
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I realize the act that the state of Georgia is doing may be to recoup cost from lost gasoline revenue which would go toward road maintenance but still it does not sit well with me. My state changes something like $213 a year for AFVs. The 2021 gasoline tax is 28.7 center per gallon. This means the state presumes that the average AFV would consume the dollar equivalent of about $750 in gasoline. My state considers cars like the Volt and Tesla the same way and these kinds of gasoline-electric/all-electric as using the roads without the recovery costs from motorists. But I was wondering how this was handled in other states?
BTW, makes no difference if an AFV owner gets and AFV tag, because this is an annual excise tax and has nothing to do with the tag office. If you want an AFV tag you have to pay for that separately. It is claimed AFV-tagged vehicles can use the HOT/HOV lanes freely but this requires a third effort in acquiring a PeachPass equipment handled through yet a third office. And their website seems to not jibe with this 'benefit of free-use of the HOT/HOV lanes as their website only mentions it on one section of one interstate.
Yes, I am buying a Tesla Model 3 but I feel the time I am saving from not having to visit the gas pumps will instead be spent bending over every bureaucratic sofa out there.
BTW, makes no difference if an AFV owner gets and AFV tag, because this is an annual excise tax and has nothing to do with the tag office. If you want an AFV tag you have to pay for that separately. It is claimed AFV-tagged vehicles can use the HOT/HOV lanes freely but this requires a third effort in acquiring a PeachPass equipment handled through yet a third office. And their website seems to not jibe with this 'benefit of free-use of the HOT/HOV lanes as their website only mentions it on one section of one interstate.
Yes, I am buying a Tesla Model 3 but I feel the time I am saving from not having to visit the gas pumps will instead be spent bending over every bureaucratic sofa out there.