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Re:“Dig once” bill could bring fiber Internet to much of the US by comex on Thursday March 23, 2017 @07:39PM (#13945357)
In theory Amazon/FedEx pay for their share of road maintenance costs, via gas taxes. In reality, gas taxes apparently only cover about half of such costs (overall) [1], but that still doesn't sound like a huge distortion to me.

[1] http://www.frontiergroup.org/reports/fg/do-roads-pay-themsel...

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Re:“Dig once” bill could bring fiber Internet to much of the US by spqr0a1 on Thursday March 23, 2017 @11:03PM (#13946270)
It's even worse than that, gas usage (tax revenue) scales linear with weight at low speed. Road damage scales as the fourth power of axle weight! Large trucks pay nowhere near the cost they impose on our infrastructure.
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