$2.00/ gallon at that moment, thus sacrificing short term electoral gain in favour of long term revenue raising. Such is more or less what the British government did in the 1990s, until the 2000 petrol tanker drivers strike (since then they've let petrol duty rise by less than inflation)...
” he says, marking each corner of each square in the grid. “On every corner of every block, in every store, on every bridge, in every park on both sides of the river they have ‘falcons’ counting how many trucks are passing, who is driving them and what merchandise they’re ...