Originally Posted by eldondre

I'd have to disagree. and the other side to the "gass guzzler" argument is that gas taxes represent a disproportionately large portion of lower and average income people. It also hurts truckers, delivery drivers, etc. Obviously killing the gas tax and not replacing it isn't a viable long term solution but suspending it so that people can deal with rising prices isn't the worst idea in the world and is probably more efficient than sending rebate checks. It wouldn't be a bad thing, IMO, to see a shift to toll roads so people have a choice in how much they pay. There's always the argument that tolls increase local traffic but so what if they do? that's good for the local economy as people discover places they used to drive thorugh.