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How Electric Cars Could Make America's Crumbling Roads Even Worse

posted by Fnord666 on Tuesday February 26 2019, @02:36PM   Printer-friendly
from the exceedingly-crumbly dept.

Phoenix666 writes:

Phys.org:

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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  • (Score: 1) by khallow on Tuesday February 26 2019, @06:02PM (1 child)

    by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday February 26 2019, @06:02PM (#807117) Journal

    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".

    The actual response [soylentnews.org] was:

    [AC:] nor the repairs you need after extreme weather events

    [khallow:] Nobody has a serious problem with repairs. Developed world societies have incredible capacity to build and repair stuff. The rest tends to have valuable real estate and infrastructure only where they have the capability to repair it.

    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

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 27 2019, @08:12AM (#807511)

    Ya load sixteen khallows, and whadda ya get? Another day older, and deeper in confusion. O Saint Peter, don't you call me, 'cause I cain't go, I owe my soul to the Company Store!

    Wow, just like the khallow! Or sixteens of hims.