The California Transportation Commission wants to raise money to repair and maintain freeways.

The Commission is responsible for the programming and allocating of funds for the construction of highway, passenger rail and transit improvements throughout California.

California should not have to change the fee of the gasoline into a mile fee.

If California governors want to add this fee, they should increase the minimum wage for people to be able to pay it.

If the state started to charge for mileage, many people who work far from their homes will pay a high fee.

The commission wants to implement The California Road Charge Pilot Program created by the Legislature in 2014.

This program consists of paying the gas tax people had to pay for every driven mile.

A tracker device would be plugged in cars that would count the miles that people have driven.

“On July Oregon launched its third pilot program, asking 5,000 volunteers to pay 1.5 cents per mile they drive. Vehicle mileage is tracked by a device plugged into each car, and gas taxes are refunded,” further explained by ABC7 News.

People have jobs far from home because sometimes companies pay a little more than companies close to their residence. For example many people who live on LA they work on Riverside or other places.

Minimum wage doesn’t allow people to live like they want because sometimes the salary only helps them to buy food and pay their home rent.

People are trying to live with a minimum wage and now they have to add another fee?

The minimum salary is not enough to support their families, and with this new fee it will be even more difficult for this local demographic.

The gas tax is a disadvantage because people will have to pay since they need to drive to go to work, but if they have to pay for each mile driven it will be harder to keep up with the fee.

People will prefer to use public transportation instead of using their cars because of gas taxes, and it is cheaper for them to take public transportation.

This would be chaotic as buses would become even more impacted.

Transportation Commission is trying to force people to use public transportation because people won’t be able to use their cars to go on long trips or commute to work, but is the Commission ready to serve to all who are going to use public transportation?

Another issue with this program is people may consider sharing cars and the wages of gas to save some money, so the Transportation Commission would instead lose rather than of make more money.

If people start sharing cars and continue to pay for gas, then there will be less gas sold because just one car will be used in this transaction.

This is an alternative that the Commission is not considering.

Therefore, California drivers will think twice before driving if the cost for miles is implemented and the California Transportation Commission will be losing money instead of raising more money.