[Opinion] American opinion: Electric vehicles are successfully skirting the gas tax

American opinion: Electric vehicles are successfully skirting the gas tax

User taxes don’t function properly when some users are able to avoid the tax. Fuel taxes and vehicle fees are two major sources of revenue for Nevada’s State Highway Fund. This makes sense. Officials use the State Highway Fund to build and maintain roads for vehicles. Nevada Department of Transportation Director Tracy Larkin Thomason recently provided the Joint Interim Standing Committee on Growth and Infrastructure an overview of transportation…