Our man matty_prior on alternatives to road pricing, what qualifies as an SUV and the future of driving in the electric age
Road pricing gives people privacy worries and it opens the door for legislators to decide where and when you should be driving by making some roads and periods more expensive.
Worse than that, road pricing doesn’t reward efficiency, merely the number of miles you drive and potentially where and when. So if you drive 10,000 miles very efficiently and I drive 7000 flat out, you will still pay more, which isn’t fair. With Fuel Duty on electricity, there’s an element of administration about who pays the final bill. And Cobée says that there would have to be “transparency” so that we know cars aren’t fibbing . But with all cars connected and registered and public chargers and most private chargers connected too, this can be done.
The idea strikes me as fairer and simpler than taxing roads. It’s a tax on the energy you use to drive, not where and when you might have to do it.As I write, some people are very proud of themselves for letting down the tyres of SUVs parked in urban areas.sometimes ends up in town after a day hauling animal feed in the sticks, because there are no trains to get home after work.
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