We live in vastly different situations. The nearest airport is 203 miles away, but I can get groceries 26 miles from home. My avocation is rockhounding out on the desert, which involves driving anywhere from 3 to 40 miles one way, and I hike most days with fair weather. In rural areas, we pay a lot of gas tax, when the idea is floated of basing road use taxes on miles driven, we obviously do not like it. We drive a new hybrid for trips to visit kids, etc. and it stretches the mileage a long ways. My other vehicles are a year old Tacoma and a 20 year old Tundra (firewood truck) and a 1941 Chevy pickup that gets very poor mileage, but its miles are limited to parades and to the county fair. Not sure that EV technology is a match for our distances traveled yet, but I imagine it will get there since there is demand, so progress will happen.
Gas taxation is very expensive here, but we have very good road departments and the condition of the roads is excellent. Newsom essentially doubled the vehicle licensing fees when the state was in deficit. Now we are surplus, but the rates have not returned to what they were. No one liked that move, but it worked out best for the state. Covid wasn't a huge deal here, as social distancing is the lifestyle here in the outback. The first wave of it took out about 20 people at the rest home, so the fear got put into the trumpsters and they voted with their arms, nearly all got vaccinated and they never seem to bring it up. I need to come here or listen to RFK to actually come into contact with science deniers. They vax their cattle, and if they don't, one thing or another gets them, so to them vaxxing is kind of binary. Ignore the shots at your own risk, spills over to humans, too at some level.
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