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Editor, News-Register:

In 2019 the West Virginia Legislature passed an Alternative Fuel Law. This Act or law placed an extra $100 license tag fee for hybrid owners and an extra $200 fee for EV owners.

The concept was to make up for the gasoline tax the state was losing because hybrid and EV vehicles use less or no gasoline. The amount the state is losing in fuel tax is minimal. In a time when we should be using less fuel and curbing emissions, why should owners of hybrids and EV vehicles be punished for doing what is right?

In the 2020 Legislative session, Sen. Ihlenfeld introduced a bill to repeal the Alternative Fuel Law, but it died in the Transportation Committee.

Here’s hoping, not only hybrid and EV owners, but the general public will contact their representatives, by email or phone, and urge them to introduce and support a bill that will repeal this unfair and unjust law.

Floyd McFadden

Bethany

source: https://www.theintelligencer.net/opinion/letters-to-the-editor/2022/01/repeal-the-alternative-fuel-law/

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