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: 2) by aristarchus on Tuesday February 26 2019, @11:18PM (1 child)
On the other hand, trolls can thin out the traffic [google.com].
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 27 2019, @01:57PM
Here's a link to the actual image, for those who prefer not to feed Google: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:FremontTroll.jpg [wikipedia.org]