[jyl]

I think registration fees for electric cars could be raised to substitute for gasoline tax. Electric cars are usually light and driven relatively fewer miles, so their damage to roads isn't going to be huge anyway.

I also think the gasoline tax should be raised. It hasn't gone up since the 1970s, or something like that.

An electric car doesn't really interest me. I don't have such a fleet of cars that one can be dedicated to only around-town driving. And even if there are superchargers everywhere, waiting half an hour or more for a charge sounds really irritating. A plug in hybrid makes more sense for my family. A mere 25 mile electric range would handle almost all of our daily driving, and the car could still be taken on longer trips without hassle.

Heck, our 10 year old gen 2 Prius still gets 40-45 mpg in daily driving. That seems plenty good enough for now.