Except that’s not how wear scales.
Wear is also by weather, and wear from traffic on major roads is mostly from heavy trucks, and the fact that major roads have a lot of heavy truck traffic, also makes the road more expensive to build and maintain.
Yes there is some justice in taxing the gas when all cars are ICE, but there are many other costs from ICE cars than roads, for instance asthma and global warming.
In Europe gas is taxed accordingly, to limit the use of it, and USA has failed to do so for decades. The result is that average European cars in general have almost doubly the mileage of American cars, and now that gas is expensive, instead of the price increasing 50% like in USA, it is “only” increasing 20%, and people feel it less, because we drive more economic cars.
There have been talks in EU that all cars should be equipped with an odometer, and road tax should be based on that.
But that was years ago, and it seems like the idea is dead for now. But I think for heavy trucks they have something like that in some countries.
Except that’s not how wear scales.
Wear is also by weather, and wear from traffic on major roads is mostly from heavy trucks, and the fact that major roads have a lot of heavy truck traffic, also makes the road more expensive to build and maintain.
Yes there is some justice in taxing the gas when all cars are ICE, but there are many other costs from ICE cars than roads, for instance asthma and global warming.
In Europe gas is taxed accordingly, to limit the use of it, and USA has failed to do so for decades. The result is that average European cars in general have almost doubly the mileage of American cars, and now that gas is expensive, instead of the price increasing 50% like in USA, it is “only” increasing 20%, and people feel it less, because we drive more economic cars.
There have been talks in EU that all cars should be equipped with an odometer, and road tax should be based on that.
But that was years ago, and it seems like the idea is dead for now. But I think for heavy trucks they have something like that in some countries.