Are you sure that wasn't a state tax? I thought the gas tax was repealed under reagan, and the luxry tax was repealed in the last Bush cuts. I could be wrong.

What I am advocating is a tax on vehicle EPA rated gas consumption, not only to cut the sales of SUVs, but to get the big tanks a lot of lower income folks drive off the road and into the junkyards as well. If the car got over 20 hwy, it would be exempt. This would be done in conjunction with raising the taxable milaeage requirement over the years on new cars. I beleive thats how it was done in the bad old Carter days.