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Unironically, this is the argument I use when discussing urbanism with skeptical American conservatives.
It's a $12k a year tax that most Americans don't have a choice but to pay in order to get to their jobs that they hate. They never had a chance to vote on it, it was just thrust on them, and it rises every year to match inflation. And that doesn't even include the cost of maintaining local infrastructure that gas taxes don't go towards.
And yet we continue to build car-dependent cities.