Obviously, I don't have a crystal ball. I don't know what inflation will do. I don't know what oil prices will do. Paving prices are highly dependent on oil prices. I used 10 cent increments and 5 year increments because multiples of 5 and 10 are nice round easy numbers to look at. Were I to expend the effort to actually come up with a plan, I would do research and math to develop actual numbers. Maybe the initial years need to be a 73 cent per gallon tax that can be decreased by 10% to 66 cents per gallon in 2021, then decreased by 12% to 54 cents per gallon in 2024, then reduced by 13% to 47 cents per gallon in 2028, and so on. I just put down some nice round numbers that took me 30 seconds to come up with.
Obviously, I don't have a crystal ball. I don't know what inflation will do. I don't know what oil prices will do. Paving prices are highly dependent on oil prices. I used 10 cent increments and 5 year increments because multiples of 5 and 10 are nice round easy numbers to look at. Were I to expend the effort to actually come up with a plan, I would do research and math to develop actual numbers. Maybe the initial years need to be a 73 cent per gallon tax that can be decreased by 10% to 66 cents per gallon in 2021, then decreased by 12% to 54 cents per gallon in 2024, then reduced by 13% to 47 cents per gallon in 2028, and so on. I just put down some nice round numbers that took me 30 seconds to come up with.