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Oregon considering mandating pay-per-mile fees for electric vehicle owners

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🗓️ 2 September 2025

⏱️ 3 minutes

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0:00.0

Let's talk about how in another state they're considering pay per mile fees for electric vehicles.

0:08.7

This is because they're not getting their money off the gas tax.

0:11.3

This is fascinating.

0:14.6

This is in Oregon.

0:16.2

Yes, but this is fascinating.

0:17.6

So Oregon is a super liberal state, and they obviously are one of numerous lefty states.

0:29.1

And I mean, even the Republican states have done this.

0:32.7

And the Hill, by the way, had the article amongst other people that have strongly encouraged

0:37.2

people.

0:37.5

You've got to get electric. You got to save the planet. You got to do this for the country and for the article amongst other people that have strongly encouraged people. You've got to get electric.

0:38.5

You got to save the planet.

0:39.5

You got to do this for the country and for the earth and blah, blah, blah.

0:42.8

Well, now these Wizards of Smart have figured out, oh, crap.

0:48.4

If a lot of our money we're getting is off taxes on gasoline and people are using these gas.

0:56.1

So now they're coming for the electric people who they just begged and pleaded.

0:59.1

You're doing this great thing for humanity by buying these electric cars to save the planet.

1:03.0

And now they're looking at putting a variety of different fees on these electric vehicle people,

1:09.8

which that's the laughable thing to me,

1:11.4

because we're seeing this with the solar panel people with the property tax reform bill here in

1:16.4

Indiana. Jacob Stewart, who's our buddy from the indie star who comes on our show every so often

1:20.8

said, you know, he's getting screwed because he's got the solar panels on his house and they're

1:24.7

doing all sorts of alterations to the solar uh the solar stuff if you do

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