Isn’t gas tax essentially levied by the mile now?
They seem to understand the term miles per gallon when they set efficiency standards.
Perhaps they are just figuring out that laws have consequences. Demand car makers have higher fuel efficiency, get what you asked for and realize to late your fuel tax revenue went down.
"The report recommends moving to such a tax, which would mean equipping cars and trucks with a device that uses GPS technology to track the number of miles driven and compute the tax owed.
If they can track the number of miles, what else can they track? And why would we EVER want to give them that power?