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Speaker 1: Let's talk about how in another state they're considering pay

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Speaker 1: per mile fees for electric vehicles. This because they're not

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Speaker 1: getting their money off the gas tax.

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Speaker 2: This is fascinating. This is in Oregon, yes, but this

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Speaker 2: is fascic So Oregon is a super liberal state, and

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Speaker 2: they obviously are one of the numerous lefty states, and

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Speaker 2: I mean even the Republican states have done this. And

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Speaker 2: the Hill, by the way, I had the article amongst

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Speaker 2: other people that have strongly encouraged people, you got to

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Speaker 2: get electric, you got to save the planet, you got

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Speaker 2: to do this for the country and for the earth,

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Speaker 2: and blah blah blah. Well, now these wizards of smart

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Speaker 2: have figured out, oh crap, if a lot of our

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Speaker 2: money we're getting is off taxes on gasoline and peoples.

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Speaker 2: So now they're coming for the electric people, who they

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Speaker 2: just begged and pleaded you're doing this great thing for

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Speaker 2: humanity by buying these electric cars to save the planet.

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Speaker 2: And now they're looking at putting a variety of different

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Speaker 2: fees on these electric vehicle people. Which that's the laughable

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Speaker 2: thing to me, because we're seeing this with the solar

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Speaker 2: panel people, with the property tax reform bill here in Indiana.

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Speaker 2: Jacob Stewart, who's our buddy from the Indie Star who

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Speaker 2: comes on our show every so often, said, you know,

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Speaker 2: he's getting screwed because he's got the solar panels on

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Speaker 2: his house and they're doing all sorts of alterations to

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Speaker 2: the solar stuff. If you do anything because the government

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Speaker 2: tells you to, or you think you're gonna get some

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Speaker 2: sort of long term benefit because you're helping society, the

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Speaker 2: government will always screw you. They will always go back

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Speaker 2: on their word, and they will always find a way

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Speaker 2: to get their money. And if you believe them, then

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Speaker 2: I've got some nice swamp land I'd like to sell

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Speaker 2: to you in the they're in New Jersey.

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Speaker 1: So in Oregon, they're trying to fill a three hundred

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Speaker 1: million dollar hole in the state's transportation budget, which is

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Speaker 1: used for their road repairs or snow plowing. And of

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Speaker 1: course they used to use money from the gas tax,

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Speaker 1: which they just don't have enough of that anymore. Hawaii

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Speaker 1: is another state that does this. Makes you pay per mile.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you could get you'd either pay about two point

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Speaker 2: three cents per mile or choose an annual flat flat

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Speaker 2: fee of three hundred and forty dollars. So if you

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Speaker 2: think you're going to be under the three hundred and

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Speaker 2: forty threshold, you can do that. And I think you

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Speaker 2: get capped at the three forty.

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Speaker 1: And they have to go check your mileage, see how

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Speaker 1: far you drive every year.

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Speaker 2: And they're raising their gas tax too, so are they

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Speaker 2: Well it just shows you these states. I mean, we've

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Speaker 2: had this conversation before. Government is run by morons, and

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Speaker 2: the best and the brightest amongst us don't go into

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Speaker 2: government because they're out producing, and so you have very

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Speaker 2: oftentimes uncreative people who they're just default is what's the

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Speaker 2: easiest thing for me to do. What's the easiest thing

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Speaker 2: for me to do, And that's what I'll do.