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Hot take: pick-up trucks should be illegal as daily drivers. You should need either a commercial license or permit. Vast majority of truck drivers don't need them regularly as a truck or to tow; they're just status symbols and make driving more dangerous for everyone else. Not to mention the inefficiency.
There's an easier solution. A vehicle weight tax that actual laborers are exempted from. Weight is what damages the roads, so a weight tax would accomplish practical and ideological goals.
These large vehicles use more gas, and thus people with these large vehicles pay more in taxes. People already pay a vehicle weight tax.
Both then. You can't tax just gas because EV semis/trucks put plenty of wear on the road.
Also the gas tax fluctuates based on prices but road wear does not.
EVs are currently taxed every time they fill-up. Every watt you pull has a tax on it.
Everything (?) is taxed multiple times at some point. How does that matter in this context?