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Phoenix666 [soylentnews.org] writes:

Phys.org [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 [cato.org] a year and pay for around three-quarters [census.gov] of what the U.S. spends on building new roads and maintaining them.

I recently purchased an electric car, the Tesla Model 3 [tesla.com]. 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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