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Roughly half of the money that gets spent on US roads comes from sales taxes, property taxes, income taxes, etc., and none of that bears any relation to how much driving you (we) do.
I'm really trying to figure out how that makes it OK to tax an EV for double per mile as compared to a prius. The only point I see you making is that roads are fucking expensive to maintain and they drain taxes from everywhere.
I wasn't trying to say "Therefore it's all OK," so much as "none of this makes any sense, none of this has ever been fair."
Even non-drivers wind up paying taxes for roads.
Oh if you are looking for sense from the government you are going to go mad. First lesson I learned working in a legal adjacent field. Well, second after going mad.