Comment by SJMG
2 days ago
While electric vehicles do cause more road wear, applying that tax to most consumer vehicles is the joke. Road wear is completely dominated by semi-trucks.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth_power_law
The simplest method is to raise the HVUT, but we have so much data, we could assess miles driven * axel weight and charge a graduated fee based on that.
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