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In theory Amazon/FedEx pay for their share of road maintenance costs, via gas taxes. In reality, gas taxes apparently only cover about half of such costs (over
by comex 10y ago
In theory Amazon/FedEx pay for their share of road maintenance costs, via gas taxes. In reality, gas taxes apparently only cover about half of such costs (overall) [1], but that still doesn't sound like a huge distortion to me.
[1] http://www.frontiergroup.org/reports/fg/do-roads-pay-themselves http://www.frontiergroup.org/reports/fg/do-roads-pay-themsel...
- spqr0a1 10y agoIt's even worse than that, gas usage (tax revenue) scales linear with weight at low speed. Road damage scales as the fourth power of axle weight! Large trucks pay nowhere near the cost they impose on our infrastructure.