Reply #6: I beg your pardon but... [View All]

I bought a base model pickup truck in 03 before we were marched off to fight bush's never ending war. I bought it because I need a truck for my career not because gas was cheap. The truck has the smallest engine in it's class a V-6 and doesn't get much better mpg than the v8. Gas was in the low $1 range here when I bought it. I would not have bought the truck and instead rented or used a trailer with something more fuel efficient had I known what was going to happen with gas prices.

Gas tax punishes consumers because of circumstances beyond our control. We can't help that there is no adequate public transit or that there are no bike trails. That the automakers won't bring their more fuel efficient small vehicles and small engines to this country. We can't help that the European market clean diesels are not "50-state certified" so instead of getting 40 mpg in a pickup truck instead I am lucky to get half of that.

In 20 years, I'll be on board with a gas tax. By then we'll have no excuse.