Virginia Republicans Want Tax Relief to Ease Gas Costs. There’s Also Electric Vehicles.

Virginia Republicans Want Tax Relief to Ease Gas Costs. There’s Also Electric Vehicles.

Republican state lawmakers want a temporary pause on Virginia’s 32 cent per gallon gas tax to help offset rising prices at the pump resulting from President Donald Trump’s ill-defined and unpopular war in Iran.  They remained cool to, and to some extent critical of, electric vehicles as a means of liberating Virginia motorists from rising gasoline prices and the broader choke point on global oil supplies, as Iran continues to shut down the Strait of Hormuz.  “We need immediate relief sin...
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Republicans look to make a U-turn on federal commitment to electric vehicles for the Postal Service

Republicans look to make a U-turn on federal commitment to electric vehicles for the Postal Service

WASHINGTON — A year after being lauded for its plan to replace thousands of aging, gas-powered mail trucks with a mostly electric fleet, the U.S. Postal Service is facing congressional attempts to strip billions in federal EV funding. In June, the Senate parliamentarian blocked a Republican proposal in a major tax-and-spending bill to sell off the agency’s new electric vehicles and infrastructure and revoke remaining federal money. But efforts to halt the fleet’s shift to clean ene...
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