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) by nitehawk214 on Tuesday February 26 2019, @04:12PM (2 children)
Add a .10 cent tax to logs, require that all owners of electric vehicles burn one log per mile driven.
"Don't you ever miss the days when you used to be nostalgic?" -Loiosh
(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Tuesday February 26 2019, @04:29PM
As long as the logs are required to be beetle infested, sounds like a win-win.
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(Score: 2) by DannyB on Tuesday February 26 2019, @06:54PM
Can I use a lump of Clean Coal instead of a log?
People today are educated enough to repeat what they are taught but not to question what they are taught.