USA Today's editorial board has laid out its case on why an increase in the gas tax is the real way to promote energy conservation. Throwing out facts like increased sales of fuel-efficient cars following the $4 gas prices of 2008, a more than doubling of the United States imported oil over the last 37 years, and that gas taxes are less than half what they were per mile in 1970, USA Today makes a strong argument for a phased-in increase of the gasoline tax.
It's definitely worth the read, and to hear the dissenting opinion from the USA Today editorial board, they have written a companion editorial called "Unwise and unaffordable". Read both pieces and then let your voice be heard in the comment thread attached to this story.
USA Today: Our view on gas tax: Price holds key to ending nation's addiction to oil
USA Today: Opposing view on gas tax: Unwise and unaffordable
