Higher gas prices (taxes actually) are just another element of Agenda 21 ideals.
Cities are now dictating to their constituents that mass transit MUST be used/favored over private auto travel (with funding directed as such).
Since when do we start allowing government to dictate how we desire to travel/commute in and around our cities? We voted them to work for us, not some higher calling of enviro-do-good.
Our country was BUILT on freedom of travel thru-out. Mass transit, though good for those that it works for, should not be basically forced on those that don't find it convenient or cost/time effective to their daily grind.
But, like good little enviro-socialists, we must all herd into the inner cities, into further dense high rise tenements and use the mass transit they dictate as enviro-consciously correct. Just like NYC and other dense urbanias. See, they're actually living the "correct way", enviro-consciously.
They will eventually use climate change as just cause for eminent domain too.