Breitbart.com is reporting today that Senator John Thune, the incoming chairman of the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee, is considering all options to replenish the shrinking Highway Trust Fund–he would not rule out a gasoline tax increase.

This is the kind of thinking that makes me go ballistic. Gas prices have finally come down to the point where Americans don’t cry when they fill up their gas tanks, and this person wants to increase to tax to raise the price. The recent decrease in gasoline prices is the equivalent of a tax break for Americans who use their cars to commute to work or use their cars as part of their businesses. An increase in gasoline prices due to a tax hike would not be good for the American economy in general. I can’t believe a Republican senator would even consider it.

This sort of thinking does not represent the American people. If raising the gasoline tax seems like a good idea to Senator Thune, he needs to be voted out of office.