Generally speaking, the gas tax does a very good job of this without needing to be adjusted.
Big vehicles, which damage roads more, tend to use more gas. A person owning a big vehicle pays more in taxes.
The rich tend to buy vehicles that are more luxurious and are usually less efficient. They pay more taxes.
If you drive a lot, you will buy a lot of gas and will pay more taxes.
All these concerns are built in the gas tax already.
Agree...the ONLY ISSUE is that politicians don’t have the gonads to increase the gas tax to even account for inflation...and to also end diversions of that money (in Texas, 25% of our state gas tax goes to ‘education’; similar at the federal level, with 25% of the federal gas tax going to ‘reduce the deficit’).