Sierra Club Pitches A Fit Over Oklahoma's $100 EV Fee

Oklahoma's bid to help close a budget shortfall with a new $100 fee on electric vehicles drew a court challenge from the Sierra Club, which argues the state didn't follow the correct procedures for enacting a tax or properly measure the benefits of having those cars on the road.

Under a bill signed by Republican Gov. Mary Fallin in May, hybrid vehicle owners would also face a $30 registration fee, but gasoline and diesel engines didn't get hit with a new levy. On Tuesday, the state's Supreme Court heard arguments in a separate lawsuit filed in June to block the measure.

MDarringer - 8/9/2017 8:48:33 AM

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The Sierra Club can go hike to hell. They are among the most vile of thought terrorists.

CANADIANCOMMENTS - 8/9/2017 10:49:20 AM

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EV's are the future. Hate if you want. Drivers pay at the plug instead of the pump. They don't run on air or sunshine (yet). Everybody pays.

Vette71 - 8/9/2017 1:15:36 PM

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They pay at the plug but that doesn't have a road use tax (gas tax) which pays the cost of building and maintaining the infrastructure. Some kind of mileage fee is needed and states are moving in that direction

CANADIANCOMMENTS - 8/9/2017 2:34:12 PM

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@Vette71 It is true that some jurisdictions are looking at fees for EV's. I would be happy to see them remove subsidies/rebates for buyers first before users fees are looked at. EV buyers are well healed by and large and can well afford the rebate that governments are handing out to speed adoption.

Tiberius1701A - 8/10/2017 1:04:57 PM

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'EVs are the future' Well when one could pull his/her EV up to a charging station and add 300-500 miles to their range in the same time I can fuel my 15.5 gallon tank, I will believe it. Long live the ICE!!!!