An effort to raise the state gas tax as a way to pay for the badly underfunded road budget in Iowa was seriously studied but came nowhere close to passing last year. Opponents criticized the measure as a way to strangle the economy.
Via The Economist comes a nice little bit of infoporn on gas taxes in the OECD. You have to scroll down past all those economic backwaters, Britain, Germany, Japan, et. al to the very bottom to find the US. Poor Americans, being taxed to death by our Socialist Overlords.
