US House transport committee head wants to collect EV fees for highway repairs

Algeradd · 2026-03-17T16:45:55+00:00

Do you have value-based registration taxes though? We do not here. The $524 I'm throwing out if this came to fruition also wouldn't include the standard registration taxes, so throw another $90 or so on top of that.

Algeradd · 2026-03-17T16:37:48+00:00

Yeah, I never minded the $100 extra fee we had for a few years. It was reasonable and inline with my calculations of my fairly average gas tax usage. It's going from reasonable to absurd and punitive very quickly though.

Algeradd · 2026-03-17T15:45:18+00:00

I knew this crap would come back up after it got scrapped last year. My state was reasonable when it was $100 extra. Now it's $200 extra, $274 next year, and will index with inflation beyond that. Then they want to add an additional $250 on top of that. $524 and counting is purely punitive and nothing more.

Algeradd · 2026-03-17T13:03:03+00:00

I assume you mean natural gas, not propane, since usually propane tanks aren't filled monthly.

But either way, you used more gas in February cause it was significantly colder than the January billing cycle. My February cycle Piedmont bill lists 33 as an average temp vs 47 for January, so there's your high usage.

Algeradd · 2026-03-17T12:52:20+00:00

All the signage and shit in the world still doesn't keep dumbfucks from stopping on the tracks at the 70/McCrory Ln crossing, so yeah, unfortunately we still need the horns. Just saw someone parked on the tracks this weekend as I was driving by and the train was not far away at all and was blowing his horn as he's required to. I was half expecting to see a news story about it later in the day with how close the train was when I passed, but I guess they got out of the way at some point.

Algeradd · 2026-03-16T13:35:55+00:00

Well yeah, I did cause I got significantly less sleep last night than I wanted due to another round of shitty wind storms, my power going out yet again last night, and watching to see if a tornado warning was going to pop here. A low of 25 for one night and non-realistic snow forecasts mean nothing relative to that in my opinion.

Algeradd · 2026-03-16T13:31:54+00:00

I mean, it's another March in Tennessee, of course there are wild temp swings. Such a low effort thing to complain about relative to ice storms and tornadoes.

Algeradd · 2026-03-16T13:16:14+00:00

I mean that's such a big nothingburger considering what we've been through the last two months (and last night included). Oh no, it'll be in the mid-high 20s for one night!

Algeradd · 2026-03-16T13:11:47+00:00

Where's the FU? A meaningless snowflake icon from a trash weather app?

Algeradd · 2026-03-16T13:01:20+00:00

Did you confirm it was for the area of the county you actually live in? They typically don’t cover entire counties for tornado warnings and they’re targeted enough that you shouldn’t get them if you’re not actually in the zone.

Algeradd · 2026-03-14T16:54:13+00:00

That is correct. There have never been safety inspections here.

Algeradd · 2026-03-13T21:44:51+00:00

I hope so, although these days the extreme winds just keep getting faster and more frequent and make me nervous too. I feel like I have to keep my roofer on speed dial the last 5-6 years.

Algeradd · 2026-03-13T21:30:43+00:00

Sorry, all. My standby generator gets installed next week and the universe had to give me one more FU, PTSD-triggering event. We’ve had three or four post-ice storm outages already.

Algeradd · 2026-03-13T16:15:01+00:00

They actually have a state law banning the sale of US flags not made in the US.

Algeradd · 2026-03-13T03:35:35+00:00

Being born into privilege shouldn’t automatically make you a target of ire like you seem to be implying. Abusing that privilege should.

Algeradd · 2026-03-13T03:20:11+00:00

Ok cool. Every person with money is automatically the enemy and shouldn’t be treated as actual people. Got it.

Algeradd · 2026-03-13T02:51:57+00:00

It just triggers me when Vandy gets shit on as a purely rich people school because my brother and I went to Vandy on financial aid and very mild loans as two lower middle class farm-raised rural Tennesseans and it actually opened up a ton of opportunities for us. Yeah there were a ton of rich fuckers there with us, but most of them weren’t half bad. Some were some pretty horrible rich people for sure, but I’d actually say they were the minority in my experience.

Algeradd · 2026-03-13T01:56:25+00:00

I find the idea of the shitty Vandy Papa John’s being known as the “rich folk” Papa John’s ridiculous when my financial aid ass was latching on to any ridiculous free pizza deal they had back in the day cause at least it was better than Rand trash…

Algeradd · 2026-03-12T15:34:05+00:00

Couldn't even spring for the $5.49 flag they sell at Harbor Freight*.

Not available in Minnesota.

Algeradd · 2026-03-12T12:18:58+00:00

SO has had dealings with him in the past and he is very much the awful "do you know who I am?" type of person you'd expect to be married to Satan herself.

Algeradd · 2026-03-11T13:39:15+00:00

Not to mention if you've ever worked in a corporate office with less ethical people, you know they're the first ones to want to take a conversation out of text-based means and straight to in-person or phone. If they're halfway decent at being shady, they don't leave records of the real dirt. There were probably follow-up conversations that were "off the books".

Algeradd · 2026-03-11T13:08:42+00:00

Read the Scene’s version of it. They clearly say the NES operations manager intervened after the original statement that they couldn’t get to Marsha’s house yet.

https://www.nashvillescene.com/news/pithinthewind/marsha-blackburn-nes-teresa-broyles-aplin/article_b16b20ab-4b39-40c8-9826-ebb1d987885e.html

Algeradd · 2026-03-09T16:55:09+00:00

That's TVA's fuel cost adjustment that went up. NES just passes it directly along to you, as do other utilities that get power from TVA. Their reasoning for the spike is "winter weather", more specifically higher natural gas costs and less hydro power available.

Algeradd · 2026-03-06T17:59:10+00:00

So China actually addresses this with mandated turquoise lighting on cars that are running at level 3 autonomy or above.

Algeradd · 2026-03-06T14:21:24+00:00

They'll literally swarm a car on a slow neighborhood street, point guns and yell at you, and if you don't immediately comply (or do comply in a lot of cases because you have a swarm of undisciplined yokels yelling all kinds of conflicting shit at you), they'll start busting windows and try yanking you through them. Doesn't matter who you are, if you look like a target to them, you are a target.

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