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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: 2) by krishnoid on Tuesday February 26 2019, @11:53PM

    by krishnoid (1156) on Tuesday February 26 2019, @11:53PM (#807349)

    In California, smog check places require you to report your mileage along with the smog check results to renew your registration. Just get people to keep coming in, skip the smog check part, and get the smog check places to give them a mileage bill (and option to immediately pay) after they electronically submit the smog results to the DMV.

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