Topic – Gas Tax

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  Ben Fried, Ben Goldman

  Highway-Centric = Unaffordable

  Freelance writers, city planners, Mar 02, 12.

  Americans can’t afford a highway-centric transportation bill

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  Gas tax end might not lower gas prices

  But could cause chaos

  David Crossley, Aug 15, 11.

  End of federal gas tax could lead to highway chaos, but some question whether it would actually lower gas prices.

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  TX Representative Rodriguez defends portion of gas taxes for education

  What is a "diversion?"

  Jon Boyd, Nov 01, 10.

  TX Representative Eddie Rodriguez defends the portion of the state gas taxes that fund education.

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  Robert Puentes

  Brain Donors

  Senior Fellow at the Brookings Metropolitan Policy Program, Aug 22, 10.

  Not one state is really a "donor" state to the highway trust fund

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  Oregon DOT tests VMT tax

  Two-tiered rate

  Jon Boyd, Aug 17, 10.

  Oregon is the first state to test implementation of a vehicle miles traveled tax.

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  Four perspectives on gas taxes

  Toll-option for roads

  Jon Boyd, Aug 05, 10.

  Two articles and two op-eds present four perspectives on the federal gas tax.

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  LaHood: “Raising the gas tax is not an option”

  Gas tax is "insufficient"

  Jon Boyd, Jul 26, 10.

  DOT Secretary LaHood believes tolls and a special infastructure fund can compensate for the shortfall in the Highway Trust Fund.

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  Are toll roads the way of the future?

  Roads increasingly subsidized

  Steve Hawley, Apr 23, 10.

  Highway costs are rising and revenues falling, and many state and federal officials think the government can no longer afford to build subsidized free roads.

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  Could bonds finance next federal transportation bill?

  Would be repaid with gas taxes

  Steve Hawley, Apr 07, 10.

  The preliminary 'outside-the-box' proposal suggests funding transportation with Treasury bonds, repaying them later with increased gas tax revenues.

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  Transportation groups want 6-year bill by year’s end

  Surface transportation bill

  Vilas Bhuchar, Mar 22, 10.

  Transportation groups are hoping for a comprehensive 6-year surface transportation bill by year's end after the 2005 bill was extended until Dec 31 on Thursday.

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