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> The issue is basically that gasoline and diesel consumption was used as a proxy for travel miles in order to pay for road maintenance and the scale used to relate miles to gallons is no longer accurate even for gas-powered cars

That's very interesting. Is it possible that this could be part of the cause of the noticeably deteriorating state of roads these days?

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Of course it is. The gas tax (federal anyway) hasn't gone up even in nominal terms since 1993, even though CPI has gone up 61% since then and the real-dollar price of gas has tripled. Since the government's cut of fuel price has been shrinking for 20 years, so has the fund available for fixing roads.

Yes I'm sure the literally dozens of electric cars not paying gas tax in North Carolina are responsible for the shitty roads.

The question is clearly enough about gas and diesel vehicles.

Your scale is way off. I see electric cars everywhere.

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