Truck-Only State Tolls Roil Industry That Favors Fuel-Tax Hike
Trucks.com cites CEI Senior Fellow Marc Scribner on alternatives to fuel tax increases:
A mileage-based user fee and unlimited private activity bonds for highway improvements are possible alternatives to higher federal fuel taxes.
“This would allow states to experiment with all-electronic tolling and public-private partnerships in reconstructing and possibly expanding their interstate segments,” said Marc Scribner, senior fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute.