As Fuel Tax Bump Resurfaces, Better Option Available
April 5, 2019
The Trump administration and Democrats in Congress appear ready to consider hiking the federal fuel tax to help pay for building and maintaining the nation’s roads and bridges. But there may be a better option. In Issues, an engineer who studies technological change argues that charging motorists by the miles they travel, not when they fill their tanks, would be a fair way of raising needed funds that better fits the changing face of automobiles and driving habits.