Tax Breaks for Electric Cars May Soon be Over: Electric Car Taxes Coming

If you bought a Chevy Volt over the past year, you may have been given free money from the federal government in the form of a tax credit. Government has tried to entice the American consumer into buying cars that run on electricity--many won't even hold a charge to get you 100 miles down the road. Impractical they have proven themselves! Yet the government is subsidizing the purchase of these cars.

Until now, Americans have been given benefits to purchase them thanks to Obama. Now that's about to change. Taxes are getting ready to hit the electric car.

Drivers of electric cars may have left the gas pump behind, but there's one expense they may not be able to shake: paying to maintain the roads.

After years of urging residents to buy fuel-efficient cars and giving them tax breaks to do it, Washington state lawmakers are considering a measure to charge them a $100 annual fee — what would be the nation's first electric car fee.

State lawmakers grappling with a $5 billion deficit are facing declining gas tax revenue, which means less money to maintain or improve roads.

"Electric vehicles put just as much wear and tear on our roads as gas vehicles," said Democratic state Sen. Mary Margaret Haugen, the bill's lead sponsor. "This simply ensures that they contribute their fair share to the upkeep of our roads."

So the electric car is now becoming an enemy. How much longer until the federal government gives Americans tax credits to throw out their cars altogether and ride the Obama express--a system of high speed rail that puts more Americans on the government grid? After all, isn't the verbiage by one state Senator Haugen the first real attack on the electric car by a member of government? It's only a matter of time.