I'll put you down for "doesn't like gas tax; but is fine with it since didn't suggest alternative method". Thank you for your response!
Why do other states get by just fine and dandy without such a high tax on petrol?
If the excess tax went towards actually improving roads/freeways in a more timely manner, I could MAYBE see it. But we've been getting propositions that claim road/infrastructure relief from each new increase in taxes for over 30 years, and little to show for it. Improvement come so late, after decades waiting, they're basically barely keeping traffic at status quo. Most areas are much worse in improving economies.
Calif Dem controlled legislature thinks/vote no tax is ever enough or too much. Why are middle income people/families leaving more than coming in now? We are down to new arrivals from the wealthy (for our glorious weather) and the low wage immigrants that support them on the cheap, that they shamelessly love to take advantage of.
Calif is pricing itself out of reach for most middle income folks looking to better their chances here. Only niche professionals or tech/trade skills can make it in the nicer areas of CA, unless you work for yourself and/or telecommute. So many commute long distances just to live in halfway decent inland areas it's insane now. Every time I drive up I-15, open inland areas once considered way the hell out there, are filling in with tract homes, because you can but a new one for under $300-$400k or so. That's "affordable" here in So Cal.
Double the price of gas with taxes and such as some here claim is a noble goal for the sake of the planet, would basically do what the big jump in gas prices did from 2003 to 2008, when they more than doubled.
It basically helped start the housing bust in 2007/2008 when people started walking away from homes bought dozens of miles from work places, due to paying $100's more a month on gasoline. People of decent means could handle that, but most on very limited and squeezed budgets couldn't and just said "F-it" and walked away from homes that were worth less than what they bought them for. Yes, there were other problems that inflamed that housing disaster, but the big jump in gas prices that NEVER went back down was basically the spark like a ember on a Santa Ana day.
Some here would like to see that again, it seems?