This is surprising me: DU is against a tax on driving cars to pay for infrastructure?

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205. Yes,

but there are no good options.

We simply have to have fewer single-driver cars on the road because of the impacts on the environment and the exhaustion of cheap fossil fuels and the inability to expand road capacity ad infinitum to accommodate population growth.

And you will never decrease single-driver cars while that is a cheap and easy option.

So yes, those options are regressive, but I'd rather see that and then an absolutely amazing public transport and carsharing system funded so that people have a viable alternative to driving their own cars everywhere.

Rising oil prices have negative impacts on the poor too in terms of higher gas prices and higher food prices (factoring in the additional transport costs). Global warming driven by fossil fuel emissions will cause droughts that will raise prices as well, not to mention extreme weather events that could destroy their homes.

It's not as simple as "we need to keep driving as cheap as possible to help poor".