Following the marked success of the computerised congestion charge in London, the UK government has trailed a pilot project for taxing care road usage by the mile, at differential rates according time of day and location. England is good country to test drive this.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4610755.stm This might replace the petrol tax. What is important for the wider social control of capitalist society is that it would enable some social control to limit the centralising effects of capitalism, and to mitigate the contradiction between town and country. It sounds possible, allowing for the glitches to be ironed out. Remember capital is not against social control. It is only against social control that is in the interests of working people. But if the principle of social control is established, it is the eve of the socialist revolution, provided the political consciousness rises. Chris Burford
