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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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(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Wednesday February 27 2019, @03:31PM
Oh, the PDF is from 1978 or so. It's obsolete. The trucking industry is almost unrecognizably changed from those days. Some things have changed for the better, some for the worse, but it's a whole new world out there today. I did see that magic number of 9600 in the PDF, so obviously, that number has been around for a long time. Still want a citation: where did it come from? The PDF focuses on overweight trucks, and I can imagine that a grossly overloaded truck might cause as much damage as almost ten thousand cars.
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