America is car friendly, but there is a lot of talk (and a pilot project or two in the works) to move away from a pay @ the pump gas tax, to a tax system based on miles driven. Seems like a lot of folks are concerned about 1) the fairness in the current system and 2) the ability of the tax receipts to fund highway projects.

There are merits to rethinking the gas tax (diverting federal dollars to the states, jurisdictions, roads with most traffic), but I'm not sure how the general public would accept such a system since it would have to track actual usage (privacy issues) and feel more like a tax (since most folks don't pay attention to the tax already included in the price of gas).

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