I’m not so sure raising the gas tax is such a bad idea, as the alternative seems to be GPS Tracking for the purpose of road pricing (i.e., variable-rate tolling).
We DEFINITELY will be getting one or the other...in Texas now, it’s pretty much the second. We don’t “officially” have tracking, but half of our cars have transponders (for toll roads) and the state has readers for those transponders on EVERY HIGHWAY now (including all of the freeways), so you can’t get too far without landing in a searchable database.
“Americans for Tax Reform said it is still opposed to the idea of increasing the gas tax, despite the recent decline in fuel prices.”
Irrelevant. Gas is taxed at 18.4 cents a gallon whether a gallon costs 3 dollars or 1 dollar. If anything, taxes should be lowered since as prices go down, the tax takes a larger chunk away from oil companies, in effect coating jobs.