The gas tax concept is nearing the end of it's natural life because cars in the near future will be totally electric avoiding the tax altogether. This is the reason we need to sell off the highways altogher and start tolling them with a national "EasyPass" type system. There's no way you're going to increase gas taxes to cover the ever increasing highway trust fund. Raising the gas tax can only be done when democrates are in office and even they are scared to death doing so because it costs votes!

It a sad comment when you think we have to spend hundreds of billions of dollars building roads and bridges to no-where because our auto-centric transport system is a jobs work program that employs tens of thousands of people. The whole thing is vicious circle where you have to build more roads to create more jobs, raising taxes all along the way. You can never stop or decrease the spending.

Here's what's going to happen.

1. Transit funds will get cut or eliminated -- This is coming folks and we saw it first hand and states across the nation cut their transit funds to keep building more highways. It was more important to build roads and keep thousands employed than provide bus or train service for the poor. Once all the transit funds are eliminated, step two will take place.

2. States will borrow up to their eyeballs ---- We seen this one too as states are borrowing millions just to keep the new construction going. Where do you think the 10 Billion the government needs for new roads is going to need coming from?

3. Property taxes are next --- We are seeing this too as local towns are raising property taxes to pay just for maintenance. We're not going to see utility taxes go up to pay for all those "electric" cars so the burden will fall on the property owner. This happened to my town as repaving cost are going sky high!