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We could increase gasoline taxes so that roads, bridges, and tunnels are not falling apart. We could further tax gasoline to offset the emissions damage. Nothi
by cwhiz 6y ago
We could increase gasoline taxes so that roads, bridges, and tunnels are not falling apart. We could further tax gasoline to offset the emissions damage.
Nothing is ever going to seem reasonable so long as we keep comically underpaying for gas at the pump.
- toomuchtodo 6y agoThis is unlikely to occur because your average citizen doesn’t believe in paying the full costs of consuming fossil fuels. The only path to success is driving renewables and electric vehicles below the cost of fossil fuels.
- ashtonkem 6y agoIt won’t happen because trucking won’t allow it. Practically speaking the vast majority of road damage is done by semi trucks, your average minivan isn’t doing much damage comparatively. Forcing them to pay their fair share for road cost would in effect be ending a multi billion dollar per year subsidy, and would drastically affect the cost of shipped goods for consumers in the short term.
- toomuchtodo 6y agoThat too.