Ev vehicles sask

[Robertbarlage]

So there a $150 tax when you buy new Ev in Sask. Which in my option should be 1500. But anyways,this morning on 650 some environmental company will pay the tax for ya! How nice!

[Kraut]

So there a $150 tax when you buy new Ev in Sask. Which in my option should be 1500. But anyways,this morning on 650 some environmental company will pay the tax for ya! How nice!

People on the right of this issue are applauding government intervention and a new tax being applied. People on the left of this issue are decrying government intervention and an adjustment to the playing field with a user fee going to government coffers.
People make no sense.

[chuckChuck]

Yeah the Sask Party said it was to make up for the road tax not paid for with electricity. As if EVs cause a lot of road damage compared to heavy trucks which cause the largest amount by far.

They happily subsidize the hell out of public highways, but will not provide any incentives for EVs to help build infrastructure and encourage the transition like many other states and provinces are already doing.

And they are still subsidizing the oil and gas industry with low royalties and incentives. But EVs never! LOL

[fjlip]

How about a RECYCLE FEE on whole dam car, BATTERY massive environmental charge. Wrecking the planet mining, hauling rare raw materials.

[AlbertaFarmer5]

Chuck, try a mathematical exercise. Take it to the extreme that your leaders are mandating. At 100% EV's ( as they are promoting, including heavy trucking), and therefore no gas taxes collected anywhere, where does the funding come from for road maintenance and construction?

Do EV's not need snow plowed off, or sanding? Do they not wear the pavement out, or pack the gravel on gravel roads? Will nature stop heaving and cracking our roads if we all drive EV's? Will we never need to build a new road or upgrade an intersection if we all drive EV's?

Or do you expect to exponentially increase the fuel taxes on the remaining ICE vehicles, until the last person to be driving an ICE vehicle ends up shouldering the entire burden of maintaining our entire infrastructure all by themselves. Then what happens when the last ICE is driven off the road due to the astronomical cost, will it be OK to tax the EV's then?

[beaverdam]

Them's coal powered cars !

[furrowtickler]

Chuck, try a mathematical exercise. Take it to the extreme that your leaders are mandating. At 100% EV's ( as they are promoting, including heavy trucking), and therefore no gas taxes collected anywhere, where does the funding come from for road maintenance and construction?

Do EV's not need snow plowed off, or sanding? Do they not wear the pavement out, or pack the gravel on gravel roads? Will nature stop heaving and cracking our roads if we all drive EV's? Will we never need to build a new road or upgrade an intersection if we all drive EV's?

Or do you expect to exponentially increase the fuel taxes on the remaining ICE vehicles, until the last person to be driving an ICE vehicle ends up shouldering the entire burden of maintaining our entire infrastructure all by themselves. Then what happens when the last ICE is driven off the road due to the astronomical cost, will it be OK to tax the EV's then?

There is no room for common sense , not against EV’s at all but you bring up a lot of valid points
Along with the massive mining projects that must be undertaken to supply the EV battery market . Unless they can develop batteries without the need for rare earth minerals.
Also materials needed to build the rest of the EV , unless they all get 3D printed .. which is possible too.

[burnt]

So there a $150 tax when you buy new Ev in Sask. Which in my option should be 1500. But anyways,this morning on 650 some environmental company will pay the tax for ya! How nice!

How about a RECYCLE FEE on whole dam car, BATTERY massive environmental charge. Wrecking the planet mining, hauling rare raw materials.

All costs considered, would a tax of $15,000 cover it? I don't think so.

County and municipal governments should be getting half of the recharge fee to recoup the taxes lost in fuel pump taxes. So the plug in better be priced at double the cost of electricity.

Electricity costs $.25? The EV freak better be paying $.50 at the least to plug in.

A reality check might help them see the true cost of EVs.

I hate paying for their hypocrisy.

[Old Cowzilla]

On the hi-way past my place super B's ev's and horse and buggy's go past every day but still all use hi-way made from stone and oil, lots of oil !

[Guest]

Chuck, try a mathematical exercise. Take it to the extreme that your leaders are mandating. At 100% EV's ( as they are promoting, including heavy trucking), and therefore no gas taxes collected anywhere, where does the funding come from for road maintenance and construction?

Do EV's not need snow plowed off, or sanding? Do they not wear the pavement out, or pack the gravel on gravel roads? Will nature stop heaving and cracking our roads if we all drive EV's? Will we never need to build a new road or upgrade an intersection if we all drive EV's?

Or do you expect to exponentially increase the fuel taxes on the remaining ICE vehicles, until the last person to be driving an ICE vehicle ends up shouldering the entire burden of maintaining our entire infrastructure all by themselves. Then what happens when the last ICE is driven off the road due to the astronomical cost, will it be OK to tax the EV's then?

come on now !
thats a little deep for the likes of chuck
guys like him are so used to getting everything subsidized under the guise of clean energy they have lost sight of the big picture

[AlbertaFarmer5]

come on now !
thats a little deep for the likes of chuck
guys like him are so used to getting everything subsidized under the guise of clean energy they have lost sight of the big picture

But in credit to chuck, we had puddles in the depth of the drought this summer that were too deep for Chuck.

[fjlip]

On the hi-way past my place super B's ev's and horse and buggy's go past every day but still all use hi-way made from stone and oil, lots of oil !

SO....how do we make highways with GREEN sh it?

[Old Cowzilla]

SO....how do we make highways with GREEN sh it?

Horse and buggy guys leave a trail of brown sh it usually

[STR1]

So there a $150 tax when you buy new Ev in Sask. Which in my option should be 1500. But anyways,this morning on 650 some environmental company will pay the tax for ya! How nice!

I think you are referring to the $150 per year SGI surcharge, that is charged to replace the road tax we pay at the pump? It’s on SGI website.

[WiltonRanch]

Not here to pan or praise ev’s. I don’t know enough about them nor give a rats arse until I see something which would be of some use to me. Otherwise, there most definitely needs to be a road tax on them to pay for the roads they use. Plain and simple. To think the ev crowd is any more special than the ice crowd they don’t need to pay their part is absurd. Going forward I think there will be other unintended consequences present themselves as more ev’s come on the road. Lol. Power grid in this province is bloody antiquated enough as it is I really fear for the future, a cold dark future, as coal plants are shuttered.