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Politician Vs your car: How your personal mobility is under attack | Auto Expert John Cadogan

OLIGHT FLASH SALE 8pm tonight until midnight tomorrow Link: https://bit.ly/3pA9nYi Up to 35% off selected torches Get 10% off after the sale with the code AEJC10 ______________________________________________ The NSW Planning Minister is officially on the record telling us all how bad personal cars are. How they enslave us, make us unhealthy and sedentary, and how EVs are more efficient, but they are not the answer. No - I'm not joking. 12th Century, here we come, again, apparently. Help support my independent reporting, securely, via Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=54778969 Podcast (audio-only version, for listening in the car, etc.): https://anchor.fm/autoexpert Save thousands on any new car (Australia-only): https://autoexpert.com.au/contact AutoExpert discount roadside assistance package: https://247roadservices.com.au/autoex... Did you like this report? You can help support the channel, securely via PayPal: https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr... An unkind person might suggest that politicians in New South Wales are looking to do a ‘Victoria’ and implement a road-user tax on EVs, the better to further cement our national status as a global laughing stock on environmental issues. Why are the roads - a critical piece of economic infrastructure - a user-pays proposition? Law and order is not like that. The health system is not like that. Defence is not like that. Frequent users of the police or hospitals don’t get taxed more heavily, for example. So, why roads? Especially as governments can’t seem to build roads without utterly corrupt ‘public-private partnerships’ resulting in tolls being paid by users anyway. So, an EV owner on a toll road is going to pay the toll, and then those kays will add to his or her ‘user pays’ tally at the end of each period, and he’ll thus pay twice. That’s not, like, a totally discriminatory ‘double whammy’ or anything. (It’s just like paying GST on your fuel excise for the combustion-powered, now that I think about it…) Anyway, this whole governmental suggestion that EV owners are avoiding fuel excise is like claiming non-smokers are avoiding the tax on ciggies, or the sober are avoiding the tax on booze. Which is like claiming Atheism is a religion, or declaring ‘my sport of choice is not playing golf’. Meanwhile, here in reality, EVs are 50 per cent more expensive than equivalent internal combustion vehicles, ballpark. Therefore, the people buying EVs are generally more affluent than conventional new car buyers, who are themselves typically among society’s most affluent people. Because not everyone out there can afford a brand new car. Therefore, EV buyers have already paid substantially more income tax getting to the point where they can afford their new EV. And, when they bought it, they paid proportionally more GST and Stamp duty, thousands of extra dollars there. And possibly also the entirely ludicrous luxury car tax, which was implemented to protect, allegedly, the local car industry, which failed years ago, and which no longer exists. In fact, one could make a compelling argument that the only remaining, viable artefact of local car manufacturing here in Australia is the entirely unjustifiable Luxury Car Tax.