GAS [EQUIVALENT] TAXES -- AND CONTROL: Democrats put a per-mile 'transportation' fee in infrastructure bill. The reason being, ostensibly, that electric vehicles don't use gasoline/diesel and thus don't pay taxes for road use.

I've got a better idea.

Mandate (Democrats love mandates, right?) that all electric vehicles be charged at commercial EV charging stations, similar to current U.S. gas stations, of which there are roughly 115,000 in the U.S. Encourage/entice/subsidize them into adding/becoming charging stations. (As everyone knows -- or should know -- Democrats are very good at subsidizing.)

Then tax the EVs based on energy consumption, just as gasoline/diesel vehicles are taxed. One gallon of gasoline is roughly the energy equivalent of about30 kWh (kilowatt-hours) of electricity, so a federal tax of 18.4 cents/gallon equates to something less than a penny a mile, depending on the automobile's average mpg rating.

An EV (assuming an 80 kWh capacity battery capable of a 300 mile range) has a 'fuel consumption' of roughly 0.3 kWh/mile so an equivalent tax of a penny/mile would be on the order of 3 cents/kWh.

A fill-up (recharge) would be something less that $3 for either class of vehicle.

And no paperwork. Or intrusive government monitoring.