Funding roads (taxes, user fees etc)

[tomh009]

As people move to electric vehicles, though, the governments will need to move from fuel taxes to an alternate funding source. Unless roads are to be financed completely from general tax revenue in the future.

A complete loss of the gas tax would only be a small shift in road funding.

$2B is still a substantial hole in the budget. Also, financing that from HST or income taxes would completely divorce the usage from taxes (which may or may not be a good thing).

But regardless of where the money will come from, there will need to be an alternate funding source for the current $2B, because the need for road construction will not disappear with the advent of EVs.