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> Except for the cars trucks and busses.. you know the ones who actually pay for such infrastructure. That is utter nonsense. Most of the infrastructure is pai
by masklinn 3y ago
> Except for the cars trucks and busses.. you know the ones who actually pay for such infrastructure.
That is utter nonsense. Most of the infrastructure is paid for via the general funds. US gas taxes are laughably low, and the federal gas tax (supposed to pay for highways) has not been raised since 1993, so its value effectively halved since it was last raised.
The highest gas tax in the US is a combined 70c/gal.
- masklinn 3y agoOh and far from paying for the infrastructure, trucks are subsidised to use it, by everybody else, very much including bikers Trucks are the biggest source of road damage by a very long shot (3 orders of magnitude per mile driven) and don't pay anywhere near that. Trucks would have to pay at least 2 orders of magnitude higher gas taxes than cars to come anywhere near a fair share, and that's assuming an order of magnitude difference in mileage (in a linear unit, not mpg), which is not the case unless you have an extremely efficient car and a very inefficient truck.