Greed that fedzilla is spending the gas tax revenues on other non-transportation related, pork-barrel projects. Unintended consequences where they mandate CAFE standards so car companies increase fuel efficiency and create electric cars.
Now the drumbeat will begin for tax-by-the-mile, and it'll start with some liberal sob-story about how some single woman lost somebody who died on some broken road because there was no money to fix it. Get ready for a gubmint box in your ride.
There’s also the ripoff unrelated “carbon tax” they keep pushing for.
Average fuel price in European countries are all well over 50 percent tax. Even without taxes, they’re still a dollar more per gallon than the USA with tax. Hate to think of what the pols over there do with all that revenue.