Road Maintenance Taxes

This is what road/vehicle taxes are for.

It should be included in taxes on the vehicles themselves which then gets priced into the product (just like fuel is currently).One major difference between the US and EU for example is road taxes just for owning a car. The US kind of has that with registration, but the costs are too low for all vehicle classes.In the Netherlands, I pay €22/month for my economy car in a road tax that is separate from fuel taxes. If I drive more, then I'll obviously contribute more in fuel taxes.

Gas prices and insane taxes based on car’s weight (as a proxy for its toll on the road).

Gas tax doesn't even begin to cover the externalities of burning that gas. Vehicle taxes go entirely towards the administrative costs of vehicles (i.e. DMV) and also don't cover externalities. Sure the road is already built but it was funded by all tax payers, not all of which drive cars. And roads require maintenance, also tax payer funded. Society at large subsidizes cars and drivers, giving them huge chunks of land while making most cities inhospitable to pedestrians, causing almost

I don’t think we disagree? Everybody who drives pays taxes towards road maintenance. Right now, gas taxes apply roughly based on usage (more driving / more weight translates into more taxes paid). Basing directly on weight + mileage accounts for a world where EVs/hybrids exist, and so the gas tax no longer effectively covers those drivers.

Fuel tax is road rent. I don't see how you're disconnecting the two.

Gas taxes are used to fund road work.The nice think about gas taxes is that they’re mostly proportional to the mileage driven and the weight of the vehicle, two factors that determine contribution to road wear.EVs tend to be heavy but not contribute at all to gas tax. A separate EV tax for road maintenance is reasonable.

I support mileage taxes on Electric vehicles. The whole idea of the gas tax (at least in the US) was a way approximately tax road usage to fund infrastructure. Why should predominantly well off ev owners get out of paying for road maintenance? If we want to discourage carbon emissions just tax carbon.

It's considered a use tax, like the existing gasoline taxes used to fund roads and highway tolls.

This seems like a good idea. We have used gas taxes for a long time, but electric cars don't pay this tax. If we want to pay for roads based on how much people use them, we will need to switch to something other than gas taxes. Odometer readings could work, but it's not clear how to get honest readings. Weight isn't perfect, but it seems like a less-bad options than the others.