Virginia official outlines mileage-based user fee pilot and highway‑use fee, citing fuel‑tax revenue erosion

Scott Honeys, assistant commissioner for finance at the Virginia motor vehicles department, told the Senate Transportation committee that Virginia launched a mileage‑based user fee pilot and a highway‑use fee after a 2018 working‑group study found fuel‑tax revenue was eroding even as vehicle miles traveled rose. "Virginia has been using taxes on motor fuels to fund transportation for over 100 years now," Honeys said, and the state needed new tools to sustain transportation funding.

The working group concluded the 2018 revenue drop reflected rising fuel economy across traditional internal‑combustion vehicles as well as growth in electric vehicles. Honeys described the study's projected impacts to 2030, saying a chart in the report showed roughly 25,600,000 (about 25.6 million) gallons’ equivalent impact from EVs by 2030 while rising fuel‑efficiency in…