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[quote user="aegrotatio"]  Hold on, your figures are missing something.  That $7.90 to drive your Toyota is cost to you.  You're supposed to add the subsidy paying for the roadway, bridges, lamps, signals, maintenance, police, for the roads and highways that you're driving on. [/quote] As I have pointed out in previous posts, with more detail than most readers want, most motorists pay the cost of driving in the United States.   The one exception is lower income motorists.  They are subsidized by upper income motorists, as well as taxpayers who don't drive.  Most taxpayers in the U.S. are motorists. Motorists pay federal and state fuel taxes, which are included in cost of their fuel.  These taxes are used to build federal and state highways, provide police support, etc. They are included in my estimated cost of $7.90 to drive from Fort Worth to Dallas.  Also, most motorists pay property taxes, sales taxes, license fees, etc., which are used to pay for county roads and city streets.  These are indirect charges.  Most motorists don't see the connection between these taxes and their use to fund roads, streets, etc. The federal transfer subsidy would have added about 8 cents to my trip from Fort Worth to Dallas, all of which I would have paid through my federal tax assessment.  Less than a mile of my hypothetical trip was on city streets.  The amount of the support cost for those streets is indeterminate, but it would have been very little.  Thus, all up, the total cost of my comparative drive would have been about $8.00, which is considerably less than the cost of the TRE.  And if I had a passenger in my vehicle, the cost would have been much less than the total cost to go via the TRE.
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