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California's pushing hard to get everyone into electric cars, but that means the old gas tax money for fixing roads is drying up big time. So now they're looking at a mileage tax—basically charging drivers per mile instead of per gallon. Here's the deal in simple terms: The state's been testing this "road charge" idea. They ran a pilot from August 2024 to January 2025 where volunteers tracked their miles and paid a fake fee (around 2.8 cents per mile in the test). Results are