{"id":1872,"date":"2006-12-07T17:05:00","date_gmt":"2006-12-07T23:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/?p=1872"},"modified":"2012-05-15T16:36:06","modified_gmt":"2012-05-15T22:36:06","slug":"eight-cent-gas-tax-could-replace-tollways","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/eight-cent-gas-tax-could-replace-tollways\/","title":{"rendered":"Eight-cent gas tax could replace tollways"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"removed_link\" title=\"http:\/\/www.dallasblog.com\/lead-stories-1\/2006\/12\/3\/eight-cent-indexed-gas-tax-increase-can-replace-t\nolling.html\">From Dallasblog.com<\/span>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>New toll roads aren&#8217;t the only pathway to financing the state&#8217;s transportation needs, according to a recent report commissioned by the Governor&#8217;s Business Council (GBC).  An eight cent increase in the gas tax indexed for inflation may be all that&#8217;s needed to pay for new state roads over the next 25 years.<br \/>\nIn outlining the report at the Nov. 28 meeting of the Study Commission on Transportation Financing, David Ellis of the Texas Transportation Institute offered lawmakers several toll-less financing alternatives to meet the state&#8217;s future transportation needs in the eight largest metropolitan areas.<br \/>\nA flat increase in the gas tax, Ellis said, is possible but not optimal. &#8220;The fuel tax loses buying power to inflation every year because it is a tax based on the unit of volume. It&#8217;s not related to costs of projects,&#8221; he said. Nonetheless, he said, a 31-cent increase per gallon in the gas tax would provide for the Department of Transportation&#8217;s (TxDOT) unfunded needs, as opposed to the estimated $1.21 increase frequently cited by Texas Transportation Commission (TTC) chairman Ric Williamson.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Dallasblog.com: New toll roads aren&#8217;t the only pathway to financing the state&#8217;s transportation needs, according to a recent report commissioned by the Governor&#8217;s Business Council (GBC). An eight cent increase in the gas tax indexed for inflation may be all that&#8217;s needed to pay for new state roads over the next 25 years. In &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/eight-cent-gas-tax-could-replace-tollways\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Eight-cent gas tax could replace tollways<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pEnSo-uc","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1872","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1872"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1872\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}