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Darkman124 posted...

Questionmarktarius posted...

There's a good point here though, but I think it was unintentional.
"Sin taxes" are pretty much self-defeating, which a gas tax would effectively be if it gets too high.

isn't that the goal of sin taxes? to make people--and i say this with finger quotations around it--repent?

The stated goal, yes. What actually happens is that they're calculated to milk revenue from the unrepentant.
The Forbes article (warning: Forbes) in #40 actually references this, with the assertion that electric cars will gain popularity, and in the projected revenue graph about halfway down.