He says the car-tax hurt the middle class, yet his gas tax plan would hurt both the lower and middle class of people who own older cars with less fuel efficiency.

For example, I own a 1997 Chrysler Town & Country minivan with 180,000 miles on it. When I bought it brand new, it was very fuel efficient for its time, 18-20 MPH average (V-6, 166 HP). Today, those efficiencies would be seen as inefficient and now Petersen wants to punish me for something I did right 13 years ago?

Leave the gas tax alone. If the money goes to help the roads in Virginia, I can live with that. The cost is shared equally, as in share the burden equally.

To change it to favor those who can afford newer, more efficient cars and to punish those who can’t, is just another way of waging class warfare, something that Petersen seemed to be against.

Beware of the law of unthought-out consequences.