Recent Streetsblog SF posts about Gas Tax

Thoughts at a Workshop On Replacing CA’s Gas Tax With a Mileage Fee

By Joe Linton | Oct 9, 2014 | No Comments

Earlier this week, I attended a California Sustainable Transportation Funding Workshop, hosted by Caltrans, Southern California Association of Governments (SCAG), the California Transportation Commission (CTC), and the Mileage-Based User Fee Alliance (MBUFA). The half-day program focused on how the state of California could shift from our current gas tax funding stream to one based on […]

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Why You Should Be Angry About CA’s “Highest Gas Tax in the Country”

By Damien Newton | Jul 1, 2013 | No Comments

I know it’s tempting to gloat. Today, newspaper headlines are blaring the news that with the newest increase in the state’s gas tax, that California now has the highest gas tax in the country. As I said, I know it’s tempting. But, it’s the result of bad policy. None of the money from that increased […]

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Sure, Leave Gas Tax Collection to Liberal Tax-and-Spend States Like Georgia

By Tanya Snyder | Aug 15, 2011 | No Comments

One nay-sayer argument against greater federal spending for transportation goes like this: “Too many faceless bureaucrats in Washington have too much control over how states spend their money. Let states raise their own revenues and spend them as they wish.” Besides, they say, the national government is broke. There’s no more money to spend on […]

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It’s Official: Congress’s Next Spitting Contest Will Be Over the Gas Tax

By Tanya Snyder | Aug 11, 2011 | No Comments

Since the 112th Congress convened in January, the federal government almost shut down, the government almost defaulted on its debts, and the FAA was temporarily shuttered. It’s the Crisis Congress, thriving on the chaos of catastrophe. Next up: a bruising fight over funding the transportation system. A few weeks ago, Ben Smith at Politico mentioned […]

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Gas Tax Expires September 30

By Tanya Snyder | Jul 27, 2011 | No Comments

Ben Smith of Politico mentioned a little tidbit that has eluded some of us: The federal gas tax expires September 30, at the same time as the current reauthorization extension. Most of it, anyway — 4.3 cents of the current 18.4-cent-per-gallon tax will stay. The gas tax isn’t part of the reauthorization; it’s just a […]

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Bi-Partisan Political Veterans Team Up to Design a New Gas Tax System

By Tanya Snyder | Jul 12, 2011 | No Comments

Transportation reformers around the country have long been disappointed at politicians’ unwillingness to raise the gas tax to pay for infrastructure. It seems, to many, an obvious and necessary solution for the chronic underfunding of our transportation system. Meanwhile, to the politicians, it is just as obvious that raising consumer taxes during a recession is […]

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