Reply #3: Gas is already too expensive. Charging people long before there are any alternatives

[Shagbark Hickory]

is just wrong in my book.

As it is, people don't have a choice of buying an affordable car that is so fuel efficient that it would end up being cheaper than before gas prices skyrocketed in 2004.

More gas tax won't convince people to buy some car that's better on gas because they don't exist.

Instead of kicking all the working people in the balls with a gas tax, how about taxing the 1% their fair share and ending loopholes. Now that the wars are coming to an end between the savings there and taxing the rich a fair amount, we should be able to build bullet trains all over the place.