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Taxes on gas?

• lotsofpulp 10mo ago
  Gas is a different shared resource (e.g. it’s effects on air quality/climate change) than road capacity.
  • jtbayly 10mo ago
    The gas tax is supposedly to pay for roads. Now that they are supposedly paying for the roads via tolls, I guess we can expect that they will not decrease the gas tax but add another tax that supposedly pays for the roads.
    • Arainach 10mo ago
      The gas tax has never paid for full road maintenance. It's always been subsidized from other funds.
    • vel0city 10mo ago
      There are still all the roads that aren't toll roads that still need that tax revenue to support.
• selectodude 10mo ago
  Unfortunately, it hasn’t seen a big jump in a while, all cars are getting heavier and electrified, and gas mileage is going up.
• redwall_hp 10mo ago
  Odometry tax when you register the vehicle, with tiers based on the curb weight. Also higher gas taxes for carbon reasons.
  • WillAdams 10mo ago
    Add a mechanism for folks to file for a rebate for distance driven on private roads (an uncle's driveway is roughly a quarter mile, so half a mile six days a week 52 times each year would equal a 156 mile reduction).