President Joe Biden’s (D) America is experiencing economic difficulties, and states are rushing to figure out how to continue producing money to fund road repair.
Historically, the government has used gas taxes to fund roads, but “the issue that has developed is that those taxes are less and less every year because of inflation, fuel efficiency, and the increase of electric cars,” Fox Business said this week.
State authorities are now trying to find a way to replace those taxes, and one of the ideas being floated is to start charging cars by the mile instead of by the gallon in the future.
Adding fees to door-to-door delivery and pricing power through automobile charging stations are some more options.
“The $125 million from Joe Biden’s infrastructure bill that he passed in November 2021 will be used to support the federal government’s own initiative,” according to a Fox story.
The site said that Hawaii will soon join the states mentioned, saying “So far, just three states, Utah, Oregon, and Virginia, are producing revenue from road charges.”
Americans continue to struggle in the Biden economy, and yesterday, White House Advisor Mitch Landrieu noted that while the economy is largely robust, “inflation is very, very stubborn.”
“It is lower here than in every other industrialized nation, and it has been declining for the past eleven months. So I’m not saying we’re done fighting,” he said.
Breitbart News reported on June 12 that the issue of inflation continues to worry American voters.
“According to a Rassmussen Reports survey released this week, 87% of prospective U.S. voters are worried about inflation, including 63% who are very worried. Only 11% of people said they are not concerned about inflation,” according to the source.
Regarding the “rise of electric cars,” as the Fox story indicated, rising power prices have brought about a situation where driving an electric car 100 miles now costs more than driving a gas vehicle the same miles, according to a January report from Breitbart News.
President Joe Biden (D) has, however, pushed for electric cars as his government promotes renewable energy. In January, he said, “On my watch, the great road trip will be fully electrified.”
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