[BobL]

"what if the gasoline was $3.50 a gallon? $4.00?"

You start hitting (actually exceeding) those numbers when you drive on Cintra roads (figuring their tolls as added gas tax).

For example, if your car gets 20 miles per gallon, Cintra charges 22 cents per mile, and gas is at $2.00 per gallon - your equivalent gasoline price (after factoring in tolls) comes in at $6.40 per gallon (or close to $100 to buy 15 gallons of gas).

Now you're starting to make me think that the toll road advocates in Austin may just be reincarnated people who always felt that we pay too little for gas in this country (versus Europe), and this is just their (indirect) way of making us pay world-class prices to drive.

[ken21]

i just threw the $3.50 and $4.00 figures out as a what-if?

i have no idea what the cost would be.

i was pleasantly surprised at your 20 cents per gallon.

if it could be done that cheaply, then why not?

no doubt the "keep austin weird" people should be re-named:

"keep austin stupid and on the democrat plantation".