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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   
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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• Re:States are starting to tax Electric cars (Score: 2) by driverless on Wednesday February 27 2019, @01:25AM

  by driverless (4770) on Wednesday February 27 2019, @01:25AM (#807404)

  Roads in the US get repaired? I thought they just got a bit of hardfill and tar shovelled into the bigger potholes and then signed off as all OK.

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