California does not even keep the roads they have now in repair. When I was young CA had wonderful roads, now they are all crap. The reason? It is simple. The cost of following the enviros rules on building or repairing anything keeps a lot of the work from being done, and then also all of our monies from gas taxes are used somewhere else. Those are the two biggest reasons with the money being pissed away on other projects of the legislature, which of course are mainly libs, being at the top. They do the same thing with the lottery money that was supposed to be earmarked for schools, spend in on other things.
They are follwing the lead of the US legislatures that decided that SS money could be spent for anything but SS.
It isn't a matter of taxing gas more, it is a matter of responsible spending and the voters have to start voting these tax and spend people out of office. That is the easiest and most effective solution for every state.
As long as liberals have contol and republicans are too spinless to do anything about it, then we will have the problem of not enough money for anything let alone roads.
The solution for them is simple, tax us and shackle us with control devices that will enable them to keep track of us day and night so we will be good slaves.
Vote them out, don't vote for more taxes, vote for better government, but do it soon.