You have to do something. (Score 1)

Many good point but the reality is simple. The more efficient vehicles get the less revenue to maintain the roads. How do you deal with out of state driving such as commercial rigs registered here that travel the country? How do you deal with people from other states if there is no similar system. We have lots of people who live in Washington but cross into Oregon. 1) Put up tolls for any Washington registered drivers entering Oregon and make the toll sufficient to cover the bridge and roads. 2) Require a GPS device that only tracks mileage within specific coordinates but does not retain location history on all Oregon vehicles. I would however use RFID to report this information so when you pass certain roads it updates the count and you can be billed monthly. If you don't want to do this or never hit a checkpoint then you can submit estimates and payments and true up when you register your vehicle. This way you don't end up with a 5k bill just to register your vehicle. 3) Remove all state taxes from our gas stations for any vehicle with the installed device. This is the only way to fairly cover it. It levels the ground for the majority and ensures that out of state drivers contribute as well. If these devices were standard and there was reciprocity across state lines you'd simple have the device track by state and pay to each state accordingly. Furthermore i'm sick of Oregon paying the tab for the bridges when they are 95% of the time used by Washington residents. We pay for it out of our fuel taxes and if they only fill up in Washington they flood our roads, cause huge traffic jams, and pay nothing to maintain or upgrade them.