Increasing or decreasing gas taxes are a wash, a mute point. China and India are steadily increasing their oil consumption at a rate that will probably cause the price of oil to reach $175 to $200/bbl before it stabilizes, (if it ever does). We have to deal with the increasing price as best we can.
This summer I have to replace my old 1997 4Runner. I plan on buying a new 2009 Accord (diesel). This should more than double my mileage. It’s true we have to have transportation, It’s essential to our commerce, but at least we can replace 15mpg cars with +30mpg cars.
What we, (the USA), really need to focus on is upgrading our electric grid and building alot of Nuke plants to help ECONOMICALLY power the our future fleet of plug-in hybrids cars & trucks.
