Consider: if you drive 12,000 miles a year and get 25 miles to the gallon, that means you buy 480 gallons a year.
Now you're not going to get your fuel for free, so let's guess that fuel could go up a dollar a gallon. That's $480 dollars a year.
My Social Security taxes EVERY MONTH are more than that. NY State didn't have a sales tax when I bought my first car. Now it's 8.75% where I grew up, which in most cases is more than the profit the company that produced whatever one buys made on that item. But I left NY and started working in NJ when there was NO income tax here. Now I pay something around that $480 EVERY MONTH for NJ income tax and get nothing more than when I paid ZERO.
Think of how a magician deceives people by directing their attention away from wherever the rabbit comes from. The Left uses fuel prices in a similar manner. Government is most working people's largest expense.
Drive what you like driving.
ML/NJ
Ok I drive 25 plus per year so at 3 dollars a gallon at 25mpg it is 3000 per year. Each additional dollar it goes up is an extra 1000 dollars per year. So if costs go up two dollars that is a fuel cost of 5000 per year.