Personally, I prefer to pay 20 to 50 cents per mile in tolls, rather than an extra penny or so per mile in gas taxes, since tolls aren’t taxes. So I’m probably with everyone else here...
You "Pay by the Mile," suckers back up and think about how the U.S. is populated. The people in fly over country, thow a smaller percentage of the population, drive many more miles per year for basic necessities. For us in western North Dakota it can be 50 or 60 mile round trip for groceries. For clothing, vehicle or equipment repair, house hold furnishings, etc., it is 120 to 150 miles round trip. To go to the "Big City," of Bismarck or Miles City, MT it is 150 miles one way. Some ranchers will travel over 100 miles a day to feed and check cattle. These people already pay a gas tax for which they are not receiving value for their money. They receive bicycle paths and other nonsense. The government must manage existing funds more effectively, not go back to the well when their whims desire greater expenditure.
So you would rather pay much more for road use just for the ‘pleasure’ of not calling that cost a tax?
The highest combined state and local gas tax is around 70 cents per gallon. Even if you were only getting 15 MPG that represents a ‘toll’ of under 5 cents per mile.
I prefer a 5 cents cost to a 20 cents cost regardless of what that cost is called.