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I practiced Op 13 diligently during my high school years... in NE Oregon, there wasn't much chance to hear "real" pianists (i.e., virtuosi) live in concert, but I grew up knowing and loving Rudolf Serkin's vintage vinyl LP performance of Beethoven's "Emperor" Concerto Nr. 5 (which remains my benchmark to this day).So I was thrilled when, at the very first piano recital I was able to attend in college (autumn of 1970), I got to hear Maestro Serkin play an entire Beethoven sonata program. The Pathetique was part of that recital... and yes, he repeated the opening Grave section.I was fortunate to meet him in his green room after the recital, and with the naivety and boldness of youth, I reverently approached him, shook hands (I recall that they were small and soft, so surprising given his playing!), and managed to stammer out this very question: "Maestro, why did you repeat the opening Grave?", as I'd never heard it done, nor conceived of such myself.I recall that he was, characteristically, so kind and patient (and I'm paraphrasing my recollection after all these years): "But," he said, "it is obvious that this is what Beethoven wanted. You see, he wrote the compressed parallel Grave [Tempo I] to open the development section [mm 133-136], and clearly he wanted to open each Allegro molto theme statement with this contrast!" His logic was impeccable.To Serkin, Beethoven's intention was transparently obvious -- his brief "master class" to me was absolutely convincing (I'm sure that he conveyed this to each and every one of his students), and I've played the Pathetique "his way" ever since.Other pianists' "mileage may vary" in this regard; but to me, Serkin's word and guidance was authoritative. And yet, considering that Beethoven, having absorbed everything he could from Papa Haydn and Mozart, completely charted new courses with his highly experimental (for the time) piano sonatas -- each and every one of these precious works stands as unique in some way -- it shouldn't surprise us that some aspect of each sonata should give us pause for reflection and contemplation about "the right way" to perform it!

No. There is loose correlation between gasoline usage or tax payed to actual road usage. The damage caused to infrastructure is directly related to vehicle weight:Chart of the Day: Vehicle Weight vs Road Damage LevelsThere is a nice chart in the above link. The gas tax is actually a bad way to fund road maintance and construction because from a policy standpoint, more efficient ICE vehicles release less CO2 and use less gas, paying a lower tax. There have been issues with all tax revenue used to pay for roads because of this conundrum:States, Not Just Feds, Struggle to Keep Gas Tax Revenue FlowingEVs that don’t pay the gas tax are not really the issue. The issue is that using a gas tax to raise revenue ties who pays tax to fuel economy and usage, not to the actual damage done to roads.There are some taxes in place like the Heavy Vehicle Use Tax that attempt to charge those who cause the most damage to roads to pay for said damage, but the amounts aren’t commemorate with the damage caused.https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/policy/091116/pdfs/fhwatri-fold.pdfThe most fair system would be a weight-mile tax, where all road users pay based on their mileage and weight. The simplest form would be to charge based on weight and mileage when a car is registered. In Oregon where I live this would be once every two years. While it is true that this would mean you would pay when you are driving out of state, it would be possible to set up a tracking system for users that drive out of state a lot, and a resiprocal revenue sharing agreement amongst states. For the federal portion collected, tracking wouldn’t matter. For most road users, tracking would not be required.Large trucks already are weighted and tracked. Yes it is true it would make goods more expensive to get to market, however, people who buy said products would bear the cost of the roads. currently prices of goods are artificially low because large vehicles are subsidized under the current system.The solution to the EV gas tax issue is not to slap a band aid on a system that doesn’t distribute costs fairly, but to reform the whole vehicle tax system to make it fair.