To fix the potholes and crumbling roads, federal, state and local governments rely on fuel taxes, which raise more than US$80 billion a year and pay for around three-quarters of what the U.S. spends on building new roads and maintaining them.
I recently purchased an electric car, the Tesla Model 3. While swerving down a particularly rutted highway in New York, the economist in me began to wonder, what will happen to the roads as fewer and fewer cars run on gasoline? Who will pay to fix the streets?
Will toll roads become universal to bridge the funding gap?
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 26 2019, @03:46PM (3 children)
Charge khallow, he currently finds US have incredible capacity to build and repair stuff [soylentnews.org].
(Score: 3, Insightful) by nitehawk214 on Tuesday February 26 2019, @03:57PM (2 children)
Lol that response of "don't worry about floods from global warming, someone will fix it" is about the same as "we must continue burning fossil fuels so we can tax them and get money to (not) fix the roads".
"Don't you ever miss the days when you used to be nostalgic?" -Loiosh
(Score: 1) by khallow on Tuesday February 26 2019, @06:02PM (1 child)
The actual response [soylentnews.org] was:
Sorry, but that's true. And this quibble about how to bill (in the US) for that massive ability to repair roads and similar infrastructure doesn't change things.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 27 2019, @08:12AM
Wow, just like the khallow! Or sixteens of hims.