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