This nation's reliance on gasoline will not decrease while we have tax prices that do not account for the externalities from gasoline on our society and environment. This tax does 2 things: 1) Raises money in the short term; 2) Encourages development of alternative energy.
In reality, it only discourages driving, which is the most vast and widely accepted means of transportation in our society and only increases the burden on citizens who use individual transport as a means of commuting. We cannot put a larger strain on families who are already suffering. I see no correlation between encouraging energy development and raising gasoline taxes. The reason is because they do not correlate.
