California to raise its gas tax, already the highest in the nation

Here, I can do a better job than this entire article.

It’s currently $0.511 per gallon. There’s already a law that increases gas tax (presumably to keep up with inflation) every year in the summer. It will now be $0.536 on July 1st, so gas prices will rise $0.02 per gallon. (Less than keeping up with 8.5% inflation)

They should have just pegged the tax as a percentage (you know like sales, income, property that we pay?) so we don’t have to deal with Fox banging the drum every year.

I'd prefer gas taxes be much higher, with basic needs subsidized so that more of us can afford the necessities for longer. Burning fuel for the fun of it seems a reasonable luxury to disincentivize. Family travel (weddings, funerals, etc) seems far more important than business travel. Changing sports leagues so teams aren't flying all over the country, and instead playing their region until the finals, would be a healthy step, too. Increasing the price of raw materials might cut down on the cheaply-made stuff we ship all over the place at a whim (looking at you, plastics).

I've seen automobile conventions and trucks hauling trucks from the suburbs to rural areas to drive through the woods for the fun of it, and while the number of people who opt in to this is probably small, their carbon footprint seems huge. I'd rather reserve that for the very rich (a few private jets don't bother me; I get it, sometimes the really important decision-makers need to get places quickly), and reduce the number of very-rich people so that more people have their basic needs met and that we might gradually, not catastrophically, reduce our population.

I'm more concerned with "what they do with said taxes" than what they're taxing itself. California has one of the least-efficient operations when it comes to deliverability.

and Pelosi, and her husband's friends that miraculously keeping winning contracts-for-stuff, keep somehow nailing their stock picks right before federal money is moved to various industries.

I’m very curious what the upper limit of gas prices the public is willing to take, in a single party state. It would be fascinating to see which dollar amount tips the political scales. $12 a gallon? $20?

Truckers already are maxed at 55mph, add this and expect huge price increases.