Mobility & Traffic prices

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Statement
The way to pay for traveling will change

Driving Force
The demand for fuel will drop with the next generation of cars (hybrid, electrical, etc) the most important reason for the change in payment is because of the tax people now pay for there fuel in the Netherlands.
At this moment you pay tax over the amount of fuel (which is pretty high) [1]

Since the introduction of the hybrid car, the government is losing tax money because people just fill their car with electric energy (which has a way much lower tax rate then benzine of diesel)

And because the government already saw this comming, they introduced a new way of paying. [2]
At this moment this way of payment has been rejected, but since the electric car is on it's way, there is no doubt about it that this kind of payment system will be forced sooner or later.

This way the government still gets his tax no matter what kind of energy you use for transportation.