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How are these fees collected? I imagine it is like any other toll is collected, by waiting in a line at a toll collection booth
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In London and in Germany (for trucks) it's done electronically and with camera control (automated licence plate reading).
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Is it efficient to force every car to a stop, only to accelerate again?
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Not exactly.
Toll booths are an environmental disaster, especially on the motorway.
Same with having to stop and buy a vignette to be allowed on the motorways (Switzerland, Austria, much of Eastern Europe, ...)
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How much of the fee goes to good use,
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In case of the London congestion charge, reports have it that it has brought the London government preciously little. So the area got expanded.
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and how much is consumed in the collection and administration of the program?
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In case of the London CC, the administrative overhead was/is reported to be massive.
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The best way I can think to penalize gas guzzling is to tax purchased fuel at the pump.
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Exactly.
You'd pay more - and it'd be a lot more if all vehicle related taxes are put into the fuel price - for driving an inefficient vehicle, and even more for driving inefficiently.