Paying for Roads

[Anonymous]

In every State, road repairs and new road construction is largely paid for by gasoline taxes. This has some logic behind it as those who drive the most, pay the most.

In 20 years - the majority of the vehicles on the roads will not run on gasoline. Without that gas tax revenue, how do you pay for road repairs?

[Anonymous]

In Virginia you pay a fee based on how many miles you drive if you have a low MPG car. We have a device in the car that transmits our mileage to the DMV. If you choose not to use the device, you pay a higher fee based on the average miles a car travels in a year.

[Anonymous]

^ The amount is basically how much you would have paid in gas tax if the car were getting about 25 mpg (I think).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
In Virginia you pay a fee based on how many miles you drive if you have a low MPG car. We have a device in the car that transmits our mileage to the DMV. If you choose not to use the device, you pay a higher fee based on the average miles a car travels in a year.

does it just transmit the miles you drive in VA or does it count all the miles?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:In every State, road repairs and new road construction is largely paid for by gasoline taxes. This has some logic behind it as those who drive the most, pay the most.

In 20 years - the majority of the vehicles on the roads will not run on gasoline. Without that gas tax revenue, how do you pay for road repairs?

Didn’t phone taxes subsidize them in the past?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:In every State, road repairs and new road construction is largely paid for by gasoline taxes. This has some logic behind it as those who drive the most, pay the most.

In 20 years - the majority of the vehicles on the roads will not run on gasoline. Without that gas tax revenue, how do you pay for road repairs?

Gas taxes have not covered this cost in 30 years.

[Anonymous]

Developers of real estate should be paying higher fees to cover the real world costs.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:In every State, road repairs and new road construction is largely paid for by gasoline taxes. This has some logic behind it as those who drive the most, pay the most.

In 20 years - the majority of the vehicles on the roads will not run on gasoline. Without that gas tax revenue, how do you pay for road repairs?

LOL, in 20 years the majority of vehicles on the road will still be plain old gas cars.

[Anonymous]

Ironically there is no gasoline tax in the US to pay for the environmental damage caused by automobile exhaust. If we had one, it would cost us over $2 per gallon.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:In every State, road repairs and new road construction is largely paid for by gasoline taxes. This has some logic behind it as those who drive the most, pay the most.

In 20 years - the majority of the vehicles on the roads will not run on gasoline. Without that gas tax revenue, how do you pay for road repairs?

LOL, in 20 years the majority of vehicles on the road will still be plain old gas cars.

It will be anywhere from 40-50% by 2043. Industry analysts predict that by 2030, EVs will make up 50% of all passenger car sales and 10% of light-duty vehicle sales. Average life span of a car in 12 years so there is a considerable lag in replacement of existing fleet.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:In every State, road repairs and new road construction is largely paid for by gasoline taxes. This has some logic behind it as those who drive the most, pay the most.

In 20 years - the majority of the vehicles on the roads will not run on gasoline. Without that gas tax revenue, how do you pay for road repairs?

LOL, in 20 years the majority of vehicles on the road will still be plain old gas cars.

Yeah and those incandescent lightbulbs too.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:In every State, road repairs and new road construction is largely paid for by gasoline taxes. This has some logic behind it as those who drive the most, pay the most.

In 20 years - the majority of the vehicles on the roads will not run on gasoline. Without that gas tax revenue, how do you pay for road repairs?

LOL, in 20 years the majority of vehicles on the road will still be plain old gas cars.

Not having to get oil changes, emissions inspections, and being able to "tank up" at home instead of going to a gas station are pretty huge advantages EVs have over gas cars, even beyond whatever environmental effects they have. These are things that are cited even by conservative EV owners in pro-oil states.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

In Virginia you pay a fee based on how many miles you drive if you have a low MPG car. We have a device in the car that transmits our mileage to the DMV. If you choose not to use the device, you pay a higher fee based on the average miles a car travels in a year.
does it just transmit the miles you drive in VA or does it count all the miles?

It counts all the miles.

[Anonymous]

EV cars will have tracking devices on their cars and road tax will be charged based upon miles driven.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

In Virginia you pay a fee based on how many miles you drive if you have a low MPG car. We have a device in the car that transmits our mileage to the DMV. If you choose not to use the device, you pay a higher fee based on the average miles a car travels in a year.
does it just transmit the miles you drive in VA or does it count all the miles?

It counts all the miles.

that’s ridiculous