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You have to pay for the roads somehow.
It's an interesting question. If a gasoline tax is the only source of income for the roads, that will tend to make people want to buy more fuel efficient cars so they can limit their taxes. But if you have a tax on mileage, you will lose that push for fuel efficiency. Doesn't make sense.
A gasoline tax tends to make people drive fewer miles by increasing the cost of driving, and a switch to charging by the mile will not change that. It will just take away the motivation to buy a fuel efficient car.
Throw in the invasion of privacy that comes about by tracking cars, and I can't see one logical reason to switch to this new way of collecting funds for roads.
If there isn't enough money, and you have to take the money from the people somehow, just increase the existing gas tax.
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