Do not reduce the gas tax

 Please do not reduce the gas tax. If anything, it should be increased. 

If you want to help lower-income people, give larger rebates and tax credits for the purchase of electric vehicles, solar panels, and batteries so we can increasingly move from polluting vehicles to clean electric vehicles. 

People are still buying ICE cars despite the rising gas costs. The higher gas tax will help reverse this trend and encourage people to buy electric vehicles, especially if there is a financial "carrot" besides the "stick" of higher gas prices.  Additionally, add a "carbon combustion and pollution" charge to all new ICE vehicles. I suggest 10% of the purchase price. That can be used to fund rebates and tax credits for electric vehicles.

It should be the case that only wealthy people can afford to buy and operate ICE vehicles.

Gov. Newsome

Sen. McGuire

Marc Levine