sidneybear

20k kms per year isn't much driving, more like leisure use, which reinforces my point. How big are your solar panels if they can deliver 7 kW, and how much did your entire setup cost, including your EV?

Well MartinIdiotBangkok, Thai tourist areas just aren't pleasant because they're packed out. Prior to Covid, there were nearly 40 million of them. If 300 Baht weeds out some of them and pays for some upkeep, that's a good thing.

A&B) It's a levy charged for a government service, so of course it's a tax. You mentioned earlier that people who already have travel insurance should be exempt, but taxes don't work like that. For example, in the west, people with no kids to educate don't get income tax offsets, and pay the same amount (or more) of income tax as those who send 10 kids to public schools. Hardly a new thing to charge a levy even though some people won't benefit from it. C) I get your point on airlines, but collecting money from people arriving isn't a new concept. Many countries with visa on arrivals do it. Thanks to modern technology, other cash currencies, payment cards in any currency, tap snd pay, etc, could be used. Where there's a will, there's a way.

How many kms do you drive each EV per week then?

Accept it in multiple currencies. Accept cards. Lots of ways to collect 300 Baht. Not rocket science, really.

The question here is about EVs. Do the math on how many kWh an EV consumes, then come back to me on how feasible it is to use solar only to charge one.

Is anyone missing Prayuth yet?

Britain is packed out with immigrants anyway. A few Thais won't make any difference.

Who needs even more tourists?

Swampy is miles of corridors with a smallish strip of shops. No chance.

Indeed he was. Thaksin's clique has a long history of charging foreigners and all things foreign.

Nah. Thailand IT sector has some pretty smart people.

Tourists who find 300 Baht a hindrance aren't worth having anyway.

Just add it to the price of the air ticket and collect it from the airline, like they did with departure tax years back. Nobody would even notice it then.

Pretty much. I was in an EV taxi the other day, and the driver was telling me how useless it was. The battery only lasts half his normal shift, and he was planning to go back to a taxi with a proper engine. EVs are a gargantuan con.

A better question would be how many kms does he drive them. Solar power is puny.

In what ways have I insulted the countries that you listed by making comparisons to Thailand? Please, enlighten me with your insights, if indeed you have any.

Aside from ad hominem insults, are you able to discuss, like an adult, any of the points I raised?

Thailand is no different from anywhere else. For example, what kind of democracy offers its electorate a choice between Biden and Trump? Democracy doesn’t really exist anywhere, when you think about it, and what makes it the best system of government anyway?

Nobody listens to the preaching west anymore, thankfully.

Chicken and egg. These people have hated each other for decades.

True, but it's all a question of degrees of badness.

Spot on. Hamas had been indiscriminately firing rockets at Israeli civilians well before what happened on October 7th.

Nonsense. Personal Income Tax applies to Thais and foreigners in equal measure.

A very long post to say that you don't hold any opinions and have nothing sensible to add to the discussion.