In the wake of Governor Carcieri’s budget release last week, the governor is being accused from all sides of being insensitive to the needs of various interest groups. But at least one of the budget-balancing initiatives would affect him directly.

Carcieri proposed higher registration fees for big, heavy cars and trucks, so someone who drives an SUV would pay more each year than someone driving a compact car. During his news conference Wednesday, Carcieri speculated that the new, sliding fee scale would probably apply to some of his own vehicles.

The GMC Yukon that usually transports the governor these days is state-owned. However, vehicles registered to the governor and his wife, according to the East Greenwich tax assessor’s office, include a 2006 BMW four-door sedan, a 1999 Lexus SUV and a 1986 Jeep.

All of those vehicles are heavy enough to qualify for registration fees higher than the current $30 annual fee, under the scheme the governor proposed. The BMW is actually the heaviest of the three, at 5,038 pounds, according to the assessor’s office. That would make its annual registration fee $48. The Lexus and the Jeep would both fall into the next-lower category -- 4,000 to 4,999 pounds -- with an annual fee of $40. (Under the current practice, registration renewal is required every two years, so a $60 fee covers the two-year period.)