Shouldn’t ignore raising gas tax. If we raise gas tax $2.00 per gallon now and dedicate it to oil alternatives, it could prevent us from paying $8.00 per gal in the future to foreign producers. We’d be in better shape if we had done this 30 years ago after the last oil crisis.
Better than taxing all of us, would be govt to remove restrictions on oil companies and give them some tax incentives to drill and build new refineries.
Or...we could just drill and build refineries and not raise any taxes at all....