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Originally Posted by mrnyc
road use tax instead of gasoline tax —
As fuel taxes plummet, states weigh charging by the mile instead of the tank
By JULIE CARR SMYTH
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Evan Burroughs has spent eight years touting the virtues of an Oregon pilot program charging motorists by the distance their vehicle travels rather than the gas it guzzles, yet his own mother still hasn’t bought in.
Margaret Burroughs, 85, said she has no intention of inserting a tracking device on her Nissan Murano to record the miles she drives to get groceries or attend needlepoint meetings. She figures it’s far less hassle to just pay at the pump, as Americans have done for more than a century.
“It’s probably a good thing, but on top of everybody else’s stress today, it’s just one more thing,” she said of Oregon’s first-in-the-nation initiative, which is run by the state transportation department where her son serves as a survey analyst.
Burroughs’ reluctance exemplifies the myriad hurdles U.S. states face as they experiment with road usage charging programs aimed at one day replacing motor fuel taxes, which are generating less each year, in part due to fuel efficiency and the rise of electric cars.
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It's pretty obvious that this is what will be needed, yes. But not instead of gas taxes, but rather in addition too.
Gas taxes need to pay for the costs created by all the exhausts in terms of health & environmental damage.
A km-tax scaled by weight of vehicle to pay for the construction & maintenance of roads & freeways.
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