The only part of the price that bothers me is the amount of it that is nothing more than tax. All the while, the government is complaining they need even more. When one figures all the taxes being paid on one gallon of gas, up to 1/3 or more of the total cost the consumer has to pay at the pump, it makes it difficult for the average consumer not to complain. If they actually did use all of it to repair roads efficiently, then it would be a different story. But to use it to study why monkeys have excreta fights at the zoo, nature bike trails, and it takes longer today to build a common freeway interchange than it did to build the entire Alaska-Canada highway or the completed Empire State Building, I am not buying that they aren't getting enough.