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Hmm. We do pay income tax on the money made at the other end of the commute. The excises as proposed were a very small percentage of the tax that I already pay, were I to commute by an electric car (I use a different EV, of the two wheeled kind). I'd propose that the issue here is that government revenues come from so many random sources that it's almost impossible to balance that against an individual's usage of any government service or utility. Should I be paying more tax because I pay child support and therefore use more of that department's time? Should people who have kids pay more because the kids are in school?