>>510598160 (OP)the idea was the charging based on fuel usage was a good way to approximate how much wear&tear vehicles (especially semies, that tear up roads) were doing on a road. if fuel usage is no longer a good approximation (thought it is for semis because theyre too heavy to be battery operated) then you have to go to another metric
miles driven is good but requires extremely invasive ways for the govt to measure. a better way may be to still charge normal traffic on fuel used, but charge commercial traffic, like semis, based on their weight and miles, since they log that stuff extensively already. this aint without its downsides, to be sure.