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Lobbyists shocked and embarassed it's so low.
Campaign to ~~bribe~~ donate to politicians to increase it to $30,000 a second.
Now do “renewables”.
Neither should be subsidised.
Also:
Supporters say fuel excise is collected to fund roads and businesses that use the fuel to run cars and equipment on private roads and properties should not have to pay it.
They’re right.
Considering the surveillance state our major political parties seem hell bent on establishing you know the government would just mandate a black box be installed next to every fuel tank that uploaded your road usage to Palantir so they could calculate your road usage taxes. Right?
I would imagine that given your username you wouldn't be in too big a rush to give the government a mandate to invade even more deeply into our affairs.
With regards to "doing" renewables... Yes, we should!
Let's face it, the 2 camps right now are:
Eventually even the most rusted on climate change deniers are going to have to admit that, in this case, theft make a lot of sense.
Especially once we start seeing $4+ a litre thanks to an unconvicted pedophile in another country trying to act like a big man and picking fights he doesn't understand.
No they're not right. That fuel all ends up in the atmosphere, and the spent rubber ends up in the sea. It costs money to clean all that up.
That’s not what fuel excise is for.
Well, someone has to pay to clean up that stuff, and perhaps it would be fair if that money came from the people causing the damage - right? Perhaps somehow pay for the health impacts from the reduced air quality too. Maybe that's too much to ask?