From the BBC
The government should spend £1bn a year from the money it collects in fuel duty to fix potholes and crumbling roads, the body that represents councils in England and Wales has said.
The Local Government Association says taking 2p from the fuel duty of 57.95p per liter could clear a "backlog".
Roads are only being "patched up" under current funding levels, it argues.
Ministers say £24bn is being spent on roads between 2010-21, with an extra £200m in 2014 available for potholes.
We already have a tax, called Vehicle Excise Duty, formerly called the Road Fund License that was named for this purpose - you want to get on the road network, you pay for the network. We then have fuel duty as a usage/pollution/congestion charge. And VED raises over £5bn/annum of which £2bn is spent on roads.
So, as there's £3bn/annum not being used for roads that comes from VED that should be, and you want £1bn/annum extra spent, why go after fuel duties instead of the VED not being used for its proper purpose?