SC lawmakers considering new fee for hybrid and electric vehicles

 The money to build and maintain roads comes almost entirely from the gas tax, and since hybrids and electric vehicles use so much less gas, their drivers pay much less in gas taxes than other drivers.

"They're not paying their share," says Bill Ross, executive director for the South Carolina Alliance to Fix Our Roads.  "The same people that are commuting across the state, whether it's in an alternative vehicle or an electric vehicle or whatever, they're getting the same benefits as everybody else is and they're not paying for it."

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