Show driving I 1 up gasoline taxes there are proposals in several western states to raise the tax on gasoline from one to three cents a gallon the main reason put forth tor for this increase that automobile owners ought to be made to pay in proportion to the use they make of the roads and that this can be accomplished only 1 by an assessment against gasoline however in texas one fourth of the revenue yielded by this tax would be used in support of the schools and only three fourths of it in the building and maintain ance of highways huge quantities of gasoline are consumed in tractors motor cars trucks launches and interurban railways which either make no use or very little of state highways their owners would get no proportionate return from the money which this tax would take from them also a large amount of 0 gasoline is used in stationary engines |