[sokoloff]

Do you purchase goods which were moved by road? Where does your food come from and how does it get to you? How do you generate your income and does any of that rely on transportation?

[oftenwrong]

This would be a good argument if the road network was sized for transporting goods primarily. As it stands, road networks in population centres are largely sized to accommodate private motoring.

[vineyardmike]

The company that transports goods should pay for their use of roads. I pay for that through proper pricing of said goods.

[sokoloff]

Exactly; if the roads are subsidized (as in GP's concern), then some of that subsidy is showing up as a reduced price of goods.

[bluGill]

All of that could be done on gravel roads which are a lot cheaper than paved roads. Or trains once we are beyond the last mile.

Paved roads are required when there is a lot of traffic, but all the uses you named are a fraction of road uses.

[Kye]

This is why diesel has a higher tax.