Illinois might start charging $1,000 per year to own an electric vehicle: 'It's outrageous'

[aka-chmeee]

3. Do they not use the same highways and roads as fossil fuel powered vehicles?

Do their owners merit an additional reward for buying electric? Fuel taxes are levied on the purchaser of a new vehicle every time he buys fuel thus helping pay for roads and the maintenance thereof. We all pay who use the roads through fuel taxes, even we who just pass through. Those government incentives mentioned as well are at the public's expense. Should electrics get to skate for free?
(Traveled through Ill. couple of years ago. Worst major roads I ever experienced - even the access ramps to rest areas and the parking areas there were positively hazardous to vehicles.) Perhaps a mandatory measurement instrument on the electric vehicle to determine charging activity and a usage tax equivalent to fuel tax calculated from that would be more acceptable to the electric vehicle owners (but I doubt it).