3rd
Solving Problems That Don’t Exist
Two stories this week to file under “solutions looking for a problem to solve.”
First, the non-scourge of charging electric vehicles (EV) using a power cable will be non-solved with the addition of wireless inductive chargers. It seems that people who have grown accustomed to inserting the hose-end of a gasoline pump into their cars for the past 120 years can’t imagine doing the same thing with an electric cord.
Gotta be wireless to work? C’mon, people.
Second, the lunatic fringe in the form of one Kansas state legislator is proposing a one-cent per kilowatt hour tax on electricity used for electric vehicles. Why? Revenues from the state’s gas tax might take a beating from all the EVs on the road, he claims.
Given the modest sales of EVs this seems ill-timed and far-fetched. Also, the Federal Government and most states are giving tax credits to people to buy and use EVs.
The idea of taxing something we’re also reimbursing seems a robbing-Peter-to-pay-Paul game.
Paul will be played in this afternoon’s matinee performance by the State of Kansas.
Rage on, rational thinkers.
