Precarious Gas Tax Situation Should Have Massachusetts Residents On War Path

Massachusetts is in a dangerous situation. Within the next few months, Governor Charlie Baker may impose a fee on fuel providers that would add up to 17 cents a gallon on gasoline – for starters. (He claims he can do it on his own.) Around the same time, Democratic state legislators could ram through a major increase in the gas tax.

Sky-is-falling climate change activists say these measures are necessary – and not enough, even – to reduce carbon emissions that they say cause climate change, which they say is bad. (Cue our skepticism on every point in that last sentence.) They claim the punitive cost increases will somehow persuade people not to drive where they need to go, and that the money will be used to improve public transportation to the point where people won't want to drive nearly as much as they do now. (Did you keep a straight face through that last one?)