Letter to the editor: Electric car fees? Fair is fair.

The Associated Press article “Pa. House votes to impose fees on electric cars” (Nov. 21) raises concern for the left, again.

The House passed a bill to the Senate requiring those who own electric or hybrid vehicles to pay a tax to cover their cost of road usage. Road maintenance is funded through a gasoline tax. Since these EVs and hybrids use less gas, but use the roads as much as the rest of us, they are not paying their fair share for road use. This bill fixes that and is almost totally fair (“almost,” because it is only $75 for hybrids and $175 for EVs, much lower a cost than most of us pay with the excessively high Pennsylvania gasoline tax.)

This article notes that most Republicans voted for the bill, and most Democrats and the Sierra Club are against it. Fortunately it passed the House and is in the Pennsylvania Senate for action.

Fair is fair, guys. If you use the roads, pay for their maintenance. The Sierra Club, and I guess the Democrats, are against it because it is a negative for their climate-change fix agenda. If you just spend a few minutes doing sixth grade math, you’ll see that they are still much cheaper to operate than gasoline vehicles, so cost is still a motivator to buy these vehicles.

This is what bothers me about many left-based ideas. Their agenda usually overrides any common-sense discussion. Hopefully we’ll all get back to open discussion and “good for all” decisions. This bill should pass.

Joe Kujawski

Buffalo Township