As we go to alternate fuel engines, expect your road taxes to be levied in a number of other ways including more traffic citations for everything from seat belt violations to turn signals to license plate holders.
I’ve even heard of tickets because the driver had something hanging from the rear view mirror. The highwaymen will need to bring in the dollars one way or another and we are all to be made guilty of something to justify an arbitrary $175 fee.
In Cal, we’re busy trying to make carpool lanes, toll lanes. We pay a high gas tax and then the state puts the money into the general fund. So when we need transportation money, we just convert lanes to tolls. No problem.