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In Australia, fuel excise, car sales taxes, stamp duty, registration and trucking taxes add up to approximately 30% of road infrastructure spending. I was reading about it recently but forget the reference, sorry.
But yes, I think this is a great thing for personal freedom. Also, the idea that revenue from a particular source should be linked to spending in that area is a very simplistic narrative used to by politicians to mollify the public when raising unpopular taxes - possibly a useful PR tool, but not reflective of reality. It particularly annoys me when used as a justification for calls to make cyclists pay rego etc. given that the cyclist is already paying far, far more than their share (if they pay income tax).
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