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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?
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There *__is* intelligent life on Earth, but I leave for Texas on Monday.
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Tuesday February 26 2019, @04:17PM (10 children)
I always suspected Runaway of being a lefty who hasn't yet gotten out of the closet. (large grin)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 1) by Sulla on Tuesday February 26 2019, @04:40PM (2 children)
So we get to tax one of the most environmentally dangerous parts of the vehicle and give a market solution to replacing them? Sounds pretty good idea.
Ceterum censeo Sinae esse delendam
(Score: 1) by Sulla on Tuesday February 26 2019, @04:43PM
Sorry, resized browser to watch your tire video and replied to the wrong one of your posts.
Ceterum censeo Sinae esse delendam
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Tuesday February 26 2019, @04:47PM
Well, it is one, isn't it?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Tuesday February 26 2019, @04:52PM (2 children)
I can't get out of the closet because your large ass is in the way. Move over!!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 26 2019, @05:05PM (1 child)
Lame
(Score: 3, Touché) by Runaway1956 on Tuesday February 26 2019, @05:16PM
He's lame? That's why he doesn't get out of the way?
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 26 2019, @05:09PM (3 children)
It has nothing to do with left vs right. They are on the same side. It is republicrat authoritarians vs the rest of us.
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Tuesday February 26 2019, @05:14PM
Yeah, maybe... but I can't make fun of Runaway based on what you said.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 26 2019, @08:06PM (1 child)
what kind of dumb bitch modded the post troll? oh, that's right, the typical suck ass american voter.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 27 2019, @08:03AM
The kind of bitch that just modded your protest at being modded troll, you troll biatch! You don't understand what we do here, do you? Well, fuck off, looser!