Gas $$$.

fj12ryder wrote:
"We can not take any higher fuel taxes of cost of anything or buying more vehicles."

You're not speaking of the general public I imagine. Otherwise people would be buying vehicles that make sense instead of 15 mpg trucks and SUV's to drive to the grocery store, or commute to work.

I'm speaking practicality. Can't haul hay or straw or material for the yard in a Prius, or go fishing where the ground is soft or rough, or pull a boat out of the water or up a hill with a one either.
I can't cram myself into a sardine, If your 5' 4" and 120 lbs not much problem though. Our all wheel drive Edge gets maybe 30 mpg on a good day but usually around 22. My 600+ hp AMG gets 20-22 mpg 60-70-9-110 in 7th gear up and down hills as long as you don't get excited.
We had several micro cars and don't want any more.
Read today 50% of the questionable less pollution Electric Cars are sold in California. In 2013 Tesla Customers had an average income of 293,000.00. in 2015 another survey the Buyers of the more affordable Ford Focus EV had an average income of 199,000.00 and they got 7,500 rebates to buy them. Steve Forbes was the source. And these are the people calling for higher fuel taxes to subsidize their road use, since they pay no fuel taxes and their 7,500 tax credit. And they drive a lot less than any of our vehicles every year.
240 mile range at 30mph on a sunny90 day with win. dows down on an Interstate? We have come up behind several Priuses, I think trying to do that, it seems. A line up of traffic withe everyone on their brakes. The Tesla, one Guy in town has one. A real hot rod.
It was him, on the side of the Interstate a couple weeks ago. At the Cafe they were talking about him running the batteries down. Not sure how fare he had driven. I should have stopped but didn't seem until too late and next exit was 115 miles down the road and lots of traffic behind us.