Miles driven * vehicle weight makes way more sense.
Gas tax should cover the federal subsidies (include military/security costs…) and a carbon tax based on the percentage of total estimated cost of climate change recovery,mitigation, and damage control.
If I remember right, road damage goes up by either the square or the cube of vehicle weight. I like billwashere’s suggestion of taxing tire sales - and tax the very heavy tires that semis need proportionally to the damage they cause.
Miles driven * vehicle weight makes way more sense.
Gas tax should cover the federal subsidies (include military/security costs…) and a carbon tax based on the percentage of total estimated cost of climate change recovery,mitigation, and damage control.
If I remember right, road damage goes up by either the square or the cube of vehicle weight. I like billwashere’s suggestion of taxing tire sales - and tax the very heavy tires that semis need proportionally to the damage they cause.