… is about to go up in Illinois if the Legitimate Businessmen’s Social Club that runs the state government get their way:

Illinois residents could be charged $1,000 a year to own an electric vehicle under new legislation

The current annual fee to register an electric car in Illinois is $17.50. The claim is that dastardly electric car drivers are not paying into the gas tax base, and thus not holding up their end of the deal in paying for road repair.

Bonus round: Illinois gas tax is proposed to go up from $0.19 to $0.44 per gallon.

I have an alternate approach: Illinois should secede from Cook County. Let Chicago run things their way, let the rest of the state look to Iowa or Wisconsin for how to run things. Build a wall around Cook County and charge  fees for products going in and extremely large fees for residents who wish to emigrate. Probably unconstitutional… but this is Chicago. That’s how things are done there.