srs5694
Active Member
"As cars guzzle less gas, drivers end up paying less in gas taxes." This makes no sense. All they need to do is increase the tax.
In theory, sure. In practice, most politicians would rather gouge out their own eyes with spoons (rusty ones, in the case of Republicans) than raise gas taxes. Gas taxes in the US are currently set at a fixed number of cents per gallon, and they've been mostly stagnant for years, which means that both states and the Federal government are collecting less money per gallon, adjusted for inflation, than in the past. Improving fuel efficiency of newer cars exacerbates this issue. This is a growing problem for funding road maintenance, has been so for a while, and would be so even without EVs in the equation; but politicians have largely failed to address the issue.