The hydrocarbons used in roads are basically toxic waste from petrochemical refineries. They have effectively externalized a destructive product of fractional distillation. They emit VOCs, endanger the health of workers, affect the local environment, and have no other use. If you couldn’t drive your Dodge Ram on it, it’d be labelled “dangerous to man” and stuck in a hazmat barrel.
Maybe we should charge big oil for the opportunity to spread their toxic slop across the landscape. Or charge them a massive fee for disposing/sequestering their gunk.
The chutzpah of charging EV owners is the appalling, all-American response I’d expect from a Republican led state-house. They bow to the oligopoly instead of thinking of creative solutions for the greater good Let’s just keep on enabling petrochemical companies and maybe tear down those cancer-causing windmills. What could go wrong?
