Right. That's why we have to pay vehicle registration fees and gas taxes.

Gas taxes don't come close to paying for roads. Roads are massively subsidized out of general taxes.

Fares don't come close to paying for public transit. Public transit is massively subsidized out of general taxes.

And besides, the comment upthread said "some", not "all".

The cars have way way more negative externalities

Registration is like $100 a year for "unlimited" access to roads. Quite a bit cheaper than a yearly unlimited transit pass.

And electric cars don't pay a gas tax.

> Registration is like $100 a year for "unlimited" access to roads. Quite a bit cheaper than a yearly unlimited transit pass.

But that's still "some of it".

> And electric cars don't pay a gas tax.

Electric cars' registration fees are much higher to make up for that, e.g., in New Jersey, you owe an extra $260 per year for an EV (which automatically goes up by $10 every year) vs. a gas car.

Since you pay for the vehicle and the fuel, no it's not even close.

EVs pay a gas tax in the form of enormously more expensive registration in almost all states. I pay way more for my EV registration than I would have paid in gas tax.

Congratulations, you have invented taxes