Ygelsias and Black are completely right about this, of course. The point is to tax the specific negative externalities of driving rather than just driving per se, and in addition the new higher implementation costs work at cross-purposes with the additional goal of raising revenues. And this, about the politics, also strikes me as obviously correct:
I don't get why people think that "well, it's politically infeasible to raise the gas tax, but voters will just love it if we set up a costly system to track all of their driving habits and send them a bill for how much they've driven." Just weird.
It's a really bad idea.
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