A better solution would be some public service for the young generation to learn what it means to serve. Not everyone wants to carry a weapon or go to war, but there is plenty to be done at home; make it an option to get an education and something to build a career out of.
While it is distressing that there are so many species going extinct due to greedy careless humans, one has to wonder what the rate of extinction was before humanity spread out and took the time to observe the extinctions. Most creatures pass on without leaving fossils or solid evidence of their existence.
The gas tax is a simple use fee that funds the highways- after all, people who use it benefit the most by its upkeep in terms of service, fewer delays in transit, and less damage to vehicles with well maintained roads, whether you drive on them or your online orders and food go on them.
Oil companies on the other hand are profitable privately owned and operated, and do not require subsidies from sugar daddy Republicans politicians any more than Ohio FirstEnergy did.
I keep forgetting that Republicans are so entitled that they don’t want to pay for anything at all, even if it will make their own lives and businesses better.
No wonder Trump went bankrupt and remained rich so many times.
A better solution would be some public service for the young generation to learn what it means to serve. Not everyone wants to carry a weapon or go to war, but there is plenty to be done at home; make it an option to get an education and something to build a career out of.