Let’s be fair to electric vehicles, Texas: Letters to the editor
Let’s be fair to electric vehicles, Texas
It is my understanding that effective Sept. 1 a $200 annual fee will be added to the registration fee for all electric vehicles. This fee is to supplement road tax funds not paid by electric vehicle owners because they don't buy gasoline but use roads.
I believe this fee might be fair but only if, like all other vehicles, it was based on the mileage driven. I assume that the legislators in Texas made a faulty assumption. They assume the average car is driven 15,000 miles and gets 15 miles to the gallon each year. That means the driver bought 1,000 gallons of gas and in doing so paid 1,000 x 20 cents, which paid the state $200 in road taxes. But all drivers of gasoline and electric cars do not drive 15,000 miles a year.
To be fair, mileage driven by electric car drivers should be charged the same .0133 cents per mile driven using odometer readings that are recorded by inspection stations and are available to registration officials. Let’s be fair.
John Justice
Northeast El Paso
Maintain sprinklers, save water
Since we have an almost non-existing monsoon season this year, let us protect our water supply at all costs. I constantly see malfunctioning sprinklers: water streaming down the streets and sidewalks as well as into rocks. What a waste of precious water — and what a high water bill as well. Please keep the maintenance up on your sprinkler systems!
Brigitte Lewis
West El Paso
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Raiz Credit Union has been disappointing
I have been with Teacher’s Federal Credit Union since I began teaching over 35 years ago. It used to be a pleasure to go to the bank. Questions were answered in a matter of minutes if you called them.
Today. I called with some questions on my account and waited 15 minutes and hung up. I was directed on my phone to change all the passwords on my account for their “new system.” I have gone to the drive-up window to make a deposit and received a receipt that was not mine telling me I had $50,000 balance on my account. This account was not mine.
I know several of my friends have already changed banks for similar problems. I will do the same. What a shame that we have to do this. “Raiz” is a disappointment!
Carmen Aguilar
East El Paso
What's the dirt in the county?
I like to know how much dark money goes to people running for office in El Paso County. Also, who are the people who got the most dark money in the last election? I hope your office can dig up dirt around our county.
Emilio Villalobos
Socorro, Texas
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