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Gov. Jerry Brown and Democratic leaders have a huge challenge this week: Convince all but one Democrat in the California Legislature to vote for new fuel tax increases and vehicle fees to repair the state’s crumbling roads and highways, an incredibly unpopular vote. Drivers in Fresno are expressing a largely negative view about the tax. Among them is truck driver Abraham Baec . He fills the 240-gallon tank on his rig with about $ 600 worth of diesel. He’s moving a load of new cars from San Diego to the Bay Area and he doesn’t think a 20 cents per gallon tax should be placed on diesel under the Governor’s plan to fix roads. “I’m not agreeing with that because [of] many taxes all the time, Baec says. “They fix roads but they’re still bad. California roads are bad.” Big rig driver Gerald Cornell moves produce for a major trucking company. While pumping diesel, he says he damaged his truck by driving bumpy roads from Southern California to the Bay Area. He says he is skeptical about how
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