Letter to the editor: Fees on hybrid/EVs

Regarding the ongoing letters to the editor relating to proposed fee on hybrids and electric vehicles, I would like to point out a glaring malfeasance on lawmakers’ motives. Their reasoning is that hybrid and electric owners use less gas and don’t contribute as much as pure gas engines to our highway maintenance fund.

I own a 2012 hybrid SUV that gets 20/24 miles per gallon. How many vehicles on our roads today get higher than 20/24 mpg? A cursory look shows there are Fords, Mazdas, Nissans, Subarus, Kias and many others that achieve over 25 mpg. Why aren’t these “fees” raised on all vehicles that get over 25 mpg if it is purely due to the amount of gas one buys?

I would like them to explain why they singled out taxpayers who care about air pollution and just make those constituents pay more, because their mpg explanation is obviously bogus and easily disproved.

Teri Krause

Ligonier