In the debate over road maintenance fees for hybrid and electric vehicles, a true 21st-century plan will find a way to implement a vehicle miles traveled fee on all vehicles separate from a gas tax that would capture the cost of emissions.
The following article was originally published in the Ohio Capital Journal and published on News5Cleveland.com under a content-sharing agreement.The budget included a number of different provisions, including billions of dollars for pavement and bridges, dollars allocated specifically for economic development projects, and $3 billion for Cincinnati’s Brent Spence Bridge.
In 2019, Scioto Analysis released a white paper that is pertinent to this conversation. In this paper, we highlight the four major costs of vehicles on the road. Third, there are emissions. Internal combustion engines emit local emissions that have impacts on local public health and ecosystem health. They also emit carbon, which acts as a greenhouse gas and drives global climate change. These exact costs on society in the form of medical spending, loss of life, and the many dynamic impacts of climate change.
Gas fees have historically been used as a proxy for infrastructure use. If you drive more, you wear the roads down more. You also buy more gas, which has fees that pay for roads.
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