US - raise the gas tax

[Losty]

Gas, like food, seems to be a necessary commodity for many people and so is a subsistence good.  It is required in order to live and exercise one's basic rights.  As such, taxing it for the purpose of achieving other goods, or at all, tends to be regressive, and thus preferably discouraged.  Progressive taxes are, according to most, preferred over regressive taxes, and there is no shortage of possible progressive taxes we could use to achieve the same goals.  The fact that the affluent would not be particularly affected by such a tax is a negative.

Um no, gas is not a necessity. It is an addiction protected by global oil greed. 

If humanity had been listening to scientists back in the late 1800s when it was first calculated as to the amount of dangerous CO2 levels could harm the planet, if industry had done the right thing back then, innovation for clean energy could have succeeded by now.

We even had solar technology starting in the early 1900s. 

It isn't a matter of too much tax or no taxes, or too much regulation vs no regulation. It is a matter of stopping monopolies of power and getting global industry to compete to solve problems, not always compete to grow.

Yes, I am addicted to not walking along highways for the few hours it would take me to get to work with no side walks and 3 kids in tow. That is my greatest vice.