Here’s the alternative to a gas tax - paying 40 CENTS PER MILE to drive. This is a privately-owned toll road in Canada. The government there cut a CRONY CAPITALIST deal with the private company and they are allowed to charge AS MUCH AS THEY WANT.
http://www.407etr.com/tolls/rate-chart-2014.html
For a car that gets 25 miles per gallon, this comes out to an equivalent gas tax of 10 DOLLARS PER GALLON.
Sorry, but I’d pay pay 12 cents extra, per gallon.
On the other hand, you could just not drive on the road. I mean, if they had not built it, you wouldn’t be driving on the ground the road is built on, right? So while it sucks that there’s this nice road and you don’t get to use it because it is too expensive, it’s not like the alternative was that you’d have a nice road for free that someone else paid for so you didn’t have to.
I pay $3.5 to drive 6.5 miles one way each day. 54¢ per mile.
https://www.hctra.org/tollroads_map/?CSRT=11850941112763141150