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Re:Victoria follows South Australia and imposes electric car... by bigbubba on Saturday November 21, 2020 @02:13PM (#25171961)
How do you distribute the money to places where people drive but don't live? Gas tax handles this to an extent, but milage tax wouldn't; not without border checkpoints or mass surveillance.
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Re:Victoria follows South Australia and imposes electric car... by canofbars on Saturday November 21, 2020 @05:57PM (#25173382)
The government has stats on how busy easy road is. Just pool all of the money and distribute it based on those stats.
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Re:Victoria follows South Australia and imposes electric car... by singhrac on Sunday November 22, 2020 @05:25PM (#25181702)
To give an example - in my hometown in a few places there are small wires on the road surface that measure the number of cars that drive over it. Private by default!
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