▲ 26 ▼ Highway congestion is starting to bite. How do we get cars off the road? (www.abc.net.au) submitted 3 years ago by Arfman@aussie.zone to c/australia@aussie.zone 38 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] rumckle@aussie.zone 2 points 3 years ago (1 child) Easiest way to do that would be raise the tax on fuel, but that would be very unpopular. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] techno_analyst@kbin.social 1 point 3 years ago (1 child) They’re already looking at implementing a odometer based tax on EVs. They should just implement that for all road registered vehicles and leave the fuel tax as is (or lower). permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] killick@kbin.social 1 point 3 years ago Adding mass transit, incentives for work-from-home, etc. are all good. Taxing miles driven will reduce miles driven. Just taxing EV miles to make up for lost gas tax revenue probably won't affect miles driven, except for EV drivers. It provides no new reason for GVs to drive less. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] techno_analyst@kbin.social 1 point 3 years ago (1 child) They’re already looking at implementing a odometer based tax on EVs. They should just implement that for all road registered vehicles and leave the fuel tax as is (or lower). permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] killick@kbin.social 1 point 3 years ago Adding mass transit, incentives for work-from-home, etc. are all good. Taxing miles driven will reduce miles driven. Just taxing EV miles to make up for lost gas tax revenue probably won't affect miles driven, except for EV drivers. It provides no new reason for GVs to drive less. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] killick@kbin.social 1 point 3 years ago Adding mass transit, incentives for work-from-home, etc. are all good. Taxing miles driven will reduce miles driven. Just taxing EV miles to make up for lost gas tax revenue probably won't affect miles driven, except for EV drivers. It provides no new reason for GVs to drive less. permalink fedilink source parent