[HN] How Will States Pay for Roads When Gas Taxes Evaporate?
[HN] How Will States Pay for Roads When Gas Taxes Evaporate?
www.wsj.com Essay | How Will States Pay for Roads When Gas Taxes Evaporate?
As the number of electric vehicles grows and gasoline sales decline, governments are struggling to find new ways to fund infrastructure
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When you do your registration every year or so... you get taxed based on distance traveled. In a perfect world it's Distance traveled * weight factor. Heavier vehicles do more damage to the roads.
This is not hard to think about and doesn't require WSJ to write about.
Road use taxes will become a thing somehow. Roads cost money, need to be paid somehow, and whatever we get won't be perfect.