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Not the federal tax. Bob wants to raise the state gas tax 20 cents so he can ride for free.

I guess he's also hoping the highways get built around the places he goes. South Texas has always gotten short changed. Every time there is a budget crunch, South Texas projects get delayed in favor or projects elsewhere. Corpus Christi was ten years late getting connected to the Interstate highway system. We still don't have a controlled access highway all the way from Corpus to Houston. I'd rather have toll roads that can get built quickly and provide alternative to having to go all the way to San Antonio and Austin when I want to travel to Dallas or Fort Worth. BobL just wants any expansion limited to existing highways.

We still don't have a controlled access highway all the way from Corpus to Houston

If South America becomes the player it may then at some point in the future you'll have controlled access roads headed towards the heartland of America. At least you have a four lane hwy most of the way now which bypasses a lot of the little towns.

"BobL just wants any expansion limited to existing highways."

I don't think that I had said that. But I have said that 20 cents per gallon would enable TXDOT to pretty much do what they think is necessary. I won't argue that South Texas has been short-changed, after all even (former) President Clinton spent his time in Houston and Dallas when he visited TX, and that was only to raise money. In other words, in politics, of course, money talks, and the money is in the north (my condolences, Paleo).

And I could probably stomach toll roads, to some extent - providing that they were government run and that the tolls collected went into paying off the debts, and that they became freeways once paid off (exactly what happened to nearly all of the toll roads in Kentucky).

What I will continue to fight is handing over huge areas of state land to a private company, for building a toll road, and then charging as much as they can get away with, and then giving them monopoly protection on top of that.

Thus, I will continue to argue against the plan as long as I am able to.