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Electrification, Why not tax incentives?

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[quote user="oltmannd"][quote user="Bucyrus"][quote user="oltmannd"] A guy drives a 3 ton SUV that gets 10 mpg.  Another guy drives a 1-1/2 ton sedan that gets 40 mpg.  They both use up nearly the same highway capacity and so approximately the same damage to the highway, so why does the SUV driver have to pay 4x more? [/quote]Regarding this problem of high efficiency vehicles escaping gas tax, you probably have heard about the plan to put state GPS in our vehicles that would charge road tax by the mile rather than by the gallon of fuel.  The tax would still be collected at the gas pump, added onto the fuel purchase, but as a mileage fee rather than a gallon tax.  This turns every road into a toll road and every gas station into a tollbooth.  This is currently being talked about and tested, and I expect it to materialize as the law of the land.  Of course the beauty of this system is that once you get the state mileage tracker installed as mandatory equipment, there is so much more it can do.[/quote]Sounds like quite a "price" to pay to be offered up at the altar of "fairness".  [/quote]Speaking of fairness, this system can also vary the toll according to the demand or congestion level and/or accumulated miles driven in a certain amount of time.
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