Declining road revenue not the fault of EVs

I'd suggest there is another issue missing from the current debate, which also exists with the fuel excise and is not EV-specific. Still, such a reform represents one of the few opportunities to address it: inequality. The fuel excise, and obviously a road-use charge, has a greater impact on those who must travel greater distances. All things being equal, this would make sense: the more driving you do, the more you contribute to the upkeep of those roads. However, all things are not equal: rural communities naturally must travel greater distances, and our inner cities are dominated by our wealthiest citizens, meaning those least able to pay (low-income earners and our drought-battling farmers) end up paying more than anyone else. I don't have a clear answer to the problem, as this is a challenging issue, but it is one that should be debated. In a similar way to how we are seeing entrenched inequality in distributed renewables (low-income earners would benefit most from solar power, but can least afford the capital outlay, leading to inequitable power bills, compounded by increasing constraints on feed-in tariffs benefiting early movers—who again, are typically are not low-income earners), we are likely to see a pattern in transportation.