Ya, it's a hard reason to dispute. It ultimately has to happen or we'd have no way to support the roads if it was 100% EVs. I agree though, I think it's intent is to slow EV sales in the short term rather than continuing to encourage them.

I think the whole thing needs to be rethought though, and things like semis deal way more damage to the roads than passenger vehicles. Its not a linear rate of weight to damage.

I've seen some states do it as well though where it's clearly more punitive as the fee is a lot more. If you take an EV and ICE and compare the tax they'd pay for miles driven, it might be out of whack which would be punitive.