Reply #42: This is a replacement for the hidden road tax you pay at every fillup

[jmowreader]

I would rather they charge road tax based on the number of miles driven rather than a flat fee--maybe put a USB port on the car to pull off the odometer reading. This is because some people REALLY use their cars. There's a couple in Coeur d'Alene, ID, who have a Tesla Roadster. About once a month they drive it to Seattle. They drive the car from CDA to Ellensburg, WA, recharge at an RV park then drive from there to Seattle. That's 7500 miles of hard driving over the course of the year, plus all the around-town stuff, trips to Spokane and so on they do. If someone is putting 20,000 miles on the car every year and paying $100 per year in road tax, that kinda screws the guy who goes 5000 miles a year and pays $100.