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Re:Texas wants to charge Tesla and other EV owners annual fees by thrwhizzle on Saturday May 15, 2021 @03:39PM (#27168245)
Road maintenance fees should not be attached to the price of gasoline. The wear and tear on the road is a function of the weight of the vehicle and the miles driven.

The best place to figure out the fee should be the annual inspection. Plug into the computer, check the mileage, and calculate how many miles were driven since the last inspection. Put it into a calculator, and send out the fee.

Most of the road wear is from trucks, anyway. And I mean big rigs, not an F-150.

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Re:Texas wants to charge Tesla and other EV owners annual fees by Gibbon1 on Sunday May 16, 2021 @02:26AM (#27171648)
I don't have a ready source to back this up but I read someones comment that said there is a wide disparity between how roads and highways are paid for. Cities pay for their roads out of their general budget usually.
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