I hear some states even charge a sales tax on top of the state gas tax they charge. I bet the sheeple of those states aren’t even aware of it.
The only way you’re going to fix traffic snarls is to (a) go airborn or (b) to a system like they had in Minority Report (i think). Either way transportation needs to be governed by a computer system that will take all the idiocy off the steering wheel since I believe that’s the majority of the problem after living in San Antonio and Austin for several years.
Heck, it was January-March 2006 when Gov Fraudoire of WA and her RAT cohorts in the state legislature lobbed on an additional $.20 gas tax making WA state the highest. Now, in mid-2007 she starts talking no more taxes for awhile because 2008 is a bloody election year.
The gas taxes are plenty high enough to finance all the road-building we need - if only they’d stop diverting highway tax money to every G.D. half-baked “mass transit” idea and bicycle path from Seattle to D.C.!
FYI