Politicians and lobbyists have managed to conflate gas tax revenue directly with road maintenance funding. The gas tax instead should be seen as an energy depen

Politicians and lobbyists have managed to conflate gas tax revenue directly with road maintenance funding. The gas tax instead should be seen as an energy dependence tax. Even if there was no possibility of some new energy infrastructure to gas, the revenue should go towards subsidizing energy independence. Finding and creating the best path to achieving energy independence would be incentivised through a discounted future revenue projections of the gas tax and include climate change effects on all industries including road maintenance however minor, along with domestic energy production.