Fuming Over Electric-Vehicle Subsidies

* Re “Gas Cost Has SUV Drivers Fuming; Electric-Car Owners Not Shocked,” April 11:

Those of us who don’t drive electric vehicles have a lot to fume about.

We, in the guise of the state and federal governments, subsidize their purchase; we subsidize their manufacture; we pay about 40 cents per gallon [taxes] plus sales tax, which now runs about 12 cents more per gallon for a total of 52 cents per gallon at $1.60 pump price, almost 33%.

Electric vehicle owners pay no fuel taxes, and if they charge at home overnight they get lower-cost electricity.

Anyone not fuming must be dead.

A. TRUJILLO ESCARENO

Tustin