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Originally Posted by muppet
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This has more to do with collapsing road related tax revenues than anything. Gas taxes haven’t increased in decades and cars are more fuel efficient than ever. Electric cars look like they may eliminate major taxes on auto movement altogether.
40 years ago roads were financed much more by gas taxes, and governments could afford to fix them. Now cars are travelling many more miles with paying the same amount of tax - there is inevitably going to be a crunch on the maintenance side since roads are now mostly funded through general tax revenues.