I ask, how much would you pay to NOT have to walk 20 miles?
$3.00? For sure.
$5.00? For sure, without changing driving habits.
$8.00? For sure, begin doing better planning to minimize gas.
$10.00? For sure, be very careful about driving.
$20.00? Now we are at a buck-a-mile. I’d still buy it.
“I ask, how much would you pay to NOT have to walk 20 miles?
$3.00? For sure.
$5.00? For sure, without changing driving habits.
$8.00? For sure, begin doing better planning to minimize gas.
$10.00? For sure, be very careful about driving.
$20.00? Now we are at a buck-a-mile. I’d still buy it.”
Exactly. One of the reasons I’m so sensitive about toll roads is that the smarter people realize that the VALUE of driving exceeds the cost of driving, probably 10-fold. In other words, if people were forced to spend, say, 50 cents per miles in tolls, most people would bitch, but would spend it, given the alternatives. Right now, people pay about 2 cents a mile in gas taxes - increase it to 3 to 4 cents and only send the money going to roads, and that pretty much covers all of the costs of having roads and expanding them as necessary. If government, or private companies, are able to raise taxes/tolls above 4 cents/mile, then EVERYTHING they collect from that extra money goes into their pockets, and that can easily total $10k per year for many drivers...a new, huge, tax.