As everyone knows, our roads are supported by the gas taxes. Since people are starting to buy smaller, more fuel efficient cars, and manufacturers are even making larger cars more efficiently, There should be an added tax on the small cars that use less gas, since they put more wear and tear on the roads per gallon of gas used and purchased. This would help keep an overall gas tax price increase from happening, and would enable us to keep quality road infrastructure, even though people are running to buy these smaller more fuel efficient vehicles.
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IMO, no. Smaller fuel efficient cars are a greater benefit to the environment and, yes, wear roads out less. Governments should swallow that lost revenue (or tax it elsewhere, such as road tolls) to not discourage purchase and use of fuel efficient vehicles.
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I heard a story proposing this for Kansas this morning on the radio. It seems that they want to do a yearly milege record of your car and pay taxes on the miles you drove vs. the age and value of the car. It is somewhat logical, but would cost poor people (and me) more than now because owning old cars saves lots of taxing.