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States experiment with mileage fees, EV charges and bond programs as gas‑tax revenue erodes
Summary
Pew briefed the committee on state strategies to address revenue shortfalls, including mileage‑based charges, EV registration/charging fees, tolling, bonding programs and state resilience funds such as Vermont Bond Bank loans and Hawaii's new hotel 'green tax'.
Committee members pressed Pew researchers on how states are responding to the structural erosion of fuel‑tax revenues and rising construction costs. “State fuel taxes have really started to decline notably,” Fatima Yuzovie said, and Pew described a range of policy experiments states are piloting or have adopted.
Common approaches include mileage‑based user fees (pilots in several states), EV registration and charging fees designed to mimic gas taxes, expanded tolling or managed lanes where politically and legally…
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