Yeah and it sounds like in some parts of europe the gas tax is a percentage of the cost. In the US its a flat fee per gallon (idk anything else with that tax structure). This means that gas taxes rarely increase. They were supposed to pay for roads, but it’s been decades since they did that because raising gas prices intentionally, especially as a tax, is just going to give your opponents attack ads. A lot of our municipalities are running out of money paying for roads these days.
The taxes thing is important thing to realize, in the US it’s like maybe 20cents a gallon and in parts of Europe it’s 7 dollars a gallon.
Yeah and it sounds like in some parts of europe the gas tax is a percentage of the cost. In the US its a flat fee per gallon (idk anything else with that tax structure). This means that gas taxes rarely increase. They were supposed to pay for roads, but it’s been decades since they did that because raising gas prices intentionally, especially as a tax, is just going to give your opponents attack ads. A lot of our municipalities are running out of money paying for roads these days.