California adds 12 cent gas tax and 20 cent diesel tax

spoon059 wrote:

NYCgrrl wrote:
Of course the reverse can be said of car-less citizens who pay for roads they have no direct use for. In some parts of the country mass transit is the norm and car ownership unusual.

The difference is that those roads are used to transport freight, police and fire fighters... services that the car-less citizens still use. Those are essential services that benefit everyone in society and are part of the core goals of the federal government.

High speed transit that costs an exorbitant amount of money and benefits very few people is not a core goal of government...

And that shows the dichotomy between a blue state liberal living in a city and the rest of us that reside in the real world.