So have all my fellow Iowans accepted the gas tax yet?

[Bluzmann57]

A week in and we have higher priced gasoline than some other places. Now, like everyone else, I don't particularly like higher taxes, but what the heck, the $ is going to fix the roads and bridges and they are certainly in desperate need of repair. So I don't mind it all that much. Learning (again) to combine trips, and now that it's FINALLY nice outside, I'm walking a bit more. So it ain't all bad I guess.

[mr_hat]

1. I pay gladly, haven't really felt it.

I'll bet summer road construction season will still be just a pain though.

[vi5]

2. I don't live there, but good for you guys.

People are o.k. (or at least begrudgingly accept) higher prices when the oil companies raise them and it's going in their pockets but not when that money is going to fix their roads and bridges and make driving better and safer?

It's things like that which make me aware (when I sometimes try to forget) that we are a nation made up too largely of short sighted simpletons.

[cyberswede]

3. I don't mind. Our infrastructure needs it.

I do wish we could come up with a less regressive way of paying for it, though. A dime a gallon is more painful for poor folks.

[47of74]

4. I don't mind paying.

With my new job which I get to do from home I don't use near as much gas these days. I of course have one of these...



In the winter my Volt still uses a fair amount of gas because the battery doesn't get as far and it switches over to engine mode if it's too cold outside. When it's warmer though most days I'll probably be able to go all the way in town and back without using any gas at all.