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Originally Posted by Weitz
How does fuel taxes not just do the same thing?
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I really shouldn’t have said anything without either expanding or finding the article. But it was to incentivize ride sharing and taking longer cheaper routes. With fastest routes being the most expensive when congested (rush hour). Obviously multiple things have to be done to make something like that work and all of them are out of my realm of understanding. But simply: I liked the idea of people knowing how much each drive costs them, exactly. “I just drove to the grocery store and it cost $1.50”… whatever. Would be more for a V8 suv than a electric coupe. It makes sense as a way to incentivize reducing congestion.
Edit: found the article if interested:
https://www.macleans.ca/news/canada/...n-traffic/amp/
They basically do this with water and electricity now… and I know lots of people who “wait until 7” to drop out of peak time.