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No-one actually wants to do this but the answer is to tax fuel. UK road tax for example already taxes bigger/heavier cars more (albeit not particularly granular
by d1sxeyes 2y ago
No-one actually wants to do this but the answer is to tax fuel. UK road tax for example already taxes bigger/heavier cars more (albeit not particularly granularly), so there’s your weight component. Fuel consumption is a decent proxy for distance.
Obviously there’s some maths needed on how to apply the tax to both ICE and EVs, and to think about edge cases (super efficient but hard on tyres), although my gut says that likely the harder you are on tyres, the harder you’ll be on fuel.
- extraduder_ire 2y agoFuel is already heavily taxed in most countries.
- d1sxeyes 2y agoYes, maybe should have written “increase tax”, but assumed most of the people reading would understand.