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Re:Zero energy ready homes are coming by hahaxdxd123 on Tuesday March 07, 2023 @05:28PM (#35062177)
> Look, I hate Single Family Housing as much as anyone - but roads are BY FAR the most expensive part of infrastructure you mentioned - and those are financed by gasoline taxes.

I don't think that's true. Gasoline taxes aren't high enough to pay for roads.

https://frontiergroup.org/resources/who-pays-roads/

It seems as of 2015, 50% of road related costs came out of general taxes. And as gas taxes have remained fairly constant, while roads have become more expensive to repair as they get worse, I can only think that number has gone up since then.

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Re:Zero energy ready homes are coming by loeg on Tuesday March 07, 2023 @07:11PM (#35063347)
> It seems as of 2015, 50% of road related costs came out of general taxes.

Note that in the context of the "half came from gas taxes," the article is only talking about highway funding. Local road funding isn't covered by Fed gas taxes at all.

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