Harry they changed our plate cost to go with the Value of the car/truck, because the more it cost makes a pothole. Then one year they raised the price of our plates as of October 1st not Jan !st. So all of us buying plates late in the year paid 5 bucks a plate more than people born earlier in the year. Guy at work says, in Feb I will pay the extra 5 like you just did. I said but that is for the next year not this year.