I'd be totally fine with this, assuming that:
1) Some gas tax was removed at the same time
2) The tax took into account the weight of your vehicle and
3) There was some way to report out of state driving.
1) Some gas tax was removed at the same time
2) The tax took into account the weight of your vehicle and
3) There was some way to report out of state driving.
https://www.king5.com/article/news/washington-state-official...
While I agree this would be a perverse outcome, it is not obvious that such a thing would be "required" at all, let alone "at all times".
Here's hoping that the option never comes to pass, if for no other reason than its being trivially easy to spoof.
Road damage is proportional to axel weight to the fourth power. A 1 ton axel should pay 16 times as much for road repair as a 0.5 ton axel.
However someone driving a 3500lb Merc e-class for below average 10,000 miles a year would have to pay 4.5c/mile or $450
Buy an F150 or Tesla S class at 4500lb for 10,000 miles a year, you'd pay 12c/mile, or $1200.
Then add say 40 cents a gallon to gas tax (in the UK gas tax + sales tax on that gas tax is 314c per gallon) to combat the effects of burning gas, and you get a cost per mile of
nissan versa (31mpg) -- 2.3c/mile
Merc e-class (25mpg) -- 6c/mile
F150 (22mpg) -- 13.8c/mile
Tesla S class - 12c/mile
nissan versa (31mpg) -- 11c/mile
Merc e-class (25mpg) -- 17c/mile
F150 (22mpg) -- 26c/mile
Tesla S class - 12c/mile