Reply #2: I'm a strong proponent of serious gasoline taxes

[GliderGuider]

I'd like to see an immediate $1.00/gal tax, then a $0.50/gal increase each year until automobile VMT (vehicle miles traveled) is cut in half. I'd like to see this put in place world-wide, not just in the US and Canada.

My support for gasoline taxes comes from my understanding of Peak Oil, Climate Change and human behavior. We (the global we) need to do two things: reduce the amount of fossil fuels burned for transportation, and reduce the incentive to plan urban development around the assumption of universal automobile transportation. We could perhaps substitute electric transportation for some of it (and use the gas tax revenue to fund the switch), but mostly we need to stop driving so damned much.

Who am I? I'm an average guy with an ecological perspective and a web site. Who do I want to help? In the long run, all of humanity and every other species on the planet.