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I disagree. Roads are a public good. Having a road available to use, is worth almost as much as actually using it. Not to mention all the positive externalit

• midasuni 3y ago
  I use a road in my 1100kg car, you use it in your 2200kg car. You cause 8 times the damage. Do you generate 8 times the positive externalities?
  • tomp 3y ago
    Yes? The positive externalities created by trucks shipping food into cities massively outweigh almost all passenger traffic. So charging by weight/road damage makes no sense.
    • red-iron-pine 3y ago
      The truck that the parent poster refers to is not a 16-wheeler or panel truck used for commercial purposes, but someone's impeccably clean F-150 that hasn't hauled anything in 2+ years
  • lm28469 3y ago
    Do you eat red meat ? sugary drinks ? do you exercise ? Do you have XYZ gene ? You're costing X times more to the system because you're diabetic/obese/predisposed ? You should pay more! That's how it sounds, and if we want to live like that we can go back to cavemen times, because we didn't built societies to play this silly game
    • tangjurine 3y ago
      Maybe we should go back to having private roads then, and have people who own the roads decide.