One of the last great freedoms we enjoy is the ability to place whatever we want in the trunk of an automobile and then travel at will, with our stuff, to anywhere we’d like in the Continental United States. Marxist do not like this. They can’t control where we go, when we go, or what we can take. If fuel can be priced so as to make the only travel option a government form of mass transit, THEN they can tell you when you can go, where you can go and more importantly, what you can take. This effectively does away with the right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches.
The progressives are city types.
Most don’t go very far across town, much less across country.