The two biggest barriers to the needed tax shift from fuel to road-use are:
- education of motorists and politicians that fuel taxes engender congestion and that road charges relieve it; motorists should be begging for the change.
- trust that governments would switch instead of add; so far they have been added because no technology has existed that permits this shift, until now.
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The cenurban areas will scream if road pricing is applied fairly.
The real problem you've already covered; trust. the issue isn't that there is suspicion. The issue is that there is absolute certainty that road pricing will not be used to rational price/consumption externalities but rather to advance political agendas much like the excreable "location discrimination mortgage" debacles of both the 1950s and 2000s.
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