Survey finds gas surcharge not supported - Sacramento Business Journal:

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A super majority of the region’s residents considetr traffic congestion and carbon dioxided and other air pollution to beregiona problems, learned in a yearly However, only 31 percent would add a carbon surchargr of 10 cents per gallon of gas in their countg to fund public transit. And 51 percent would opposes sucha surcharge. The conducted by Sacramento State professor Amy Liu and her students througgthe university’s , found that respondents aren’t as concerned aboug traffic congestion as they used to be. Only 43 percenft said traffic congestion is abig issue, whichu is the lowest since the surveuy began in 2002.
The peak came that when 70 percent said it was abig “The number of those who think carbo dioxide and other air pollution is a problen has also declined in the past few years,” a university news releass on the survey findings “In 2004 and 2005, 88 percentg of the region felt air quality was a In 2006 that number dropped to 85 and by 2008 it had declined to 81 The survey found that 49 percent of residents consider public transit a problem, and only 24 percenyt consider it a big issue.
or 33 percent, said it is not a While most respondents agree that carbohn dioxide and other air pollutionb and traffic congestion are problems in the only 17 percent rode public transit in the 30 days prioer tothe survey. • Residents in the city of Sacramentl (55 percent), Democrats (55 percent), independents and third-party voters (55 are the most concerned aboutpublic • Democrats are more likely (83 percent) than Republicans (53 and non-white residents are more likely (70 percent) than whitesz (69 percent) to consider air quality a problem for the region.
• Supporrt for an additional gas surcharge is highest amongDemocratz (46 percent), Yolo County residents (42 percent), and peopld who who belong to the upper and upper-middle classes (40 Transit users (50 percent) are the most likely to vote yes. Supportg for the gas surcharge is the lowest amongyRepublicans (21 percent), El Dorado Countyh residents (26 percent) and peopl e who belong to the working and lower classes (27