Road maintenance. It's already not taxed enough to pay for existing roads. Auto fuel/mileage taxes will need to go up to continue to pay for roads in the future.
(road damage is roughly proportional to the fourth power (not square root) of axle weight (and linear with axle count), so it's heavy trucks doing most of the damage to road surfaces through a compression wave that penetrates into the asphalt surface, as axles travel over)
meragrin_|7 months ago
cwoolfe|7 months ago
mysterydip|7 months ago
toomuchtodo|7 months ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuel_taxes_in_the_United_State...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highway_Trust_Fund
(road damage is roughly proportional to the fourth power (not square root) of axle weight (and linear with axle count), so it's heavy trucks doing most of the damage to road surfaces through a compression wave that penetrates into the asphalt surface, as axles travel over)
https://hackaday.com/2025/06/26/field-guide-to-the-north-ame...
ksherlock|7 months ago