SoylentNews is people
SoylentNews
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?
This discussion has been archived.
No new comments can be posted.
How Electric Cars Could Make America's Crumbling Roads Even Worse
|
Log In/Create an Account
| Top
| 112 comments
| Search Discussion
The Fine Print: The following comments are owned by whoever posted them. We are not responsible for them in any way.
But what can you do with it?
-- ubiquitous cry from Linux-user partner
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 27 2019, @08:00AM
Spoken like a true, subsidized by the rest of us, trucker. Or some freeloader of VA benefits from having floated around, on the taxpayer's dime, for a couple of years? You are are parasite, Runaway! A not very smart one, yes, but good enough to suck the lifeblood out of America without actually killing it. But Trump will take it too far.