Recent Streetsblog LA posts about Gas Tax

8 Senate Dems Join Industry in a Gas-Tax Warning to Climate Bill’s Authors

By Damien Newton | Apr 6, 2010 | No Comments

As Sens. John Kerry (D-MA), Lindsey Graham (R-SC), and Joseph Lieberman (I-CT) prepare to unveil a new climate change measure that includes a tax on motor fuels, eight of their colleagues are urging the trio not to forget local transportation planning — and warning that any new gas tax should be used to help pay […]

New Report: Congress Should Boost Truck Efficiency by Raising Gas Tax

By Elana Schor | Apr 1, 2010 | No Comments

As the federal government moves forward on a mandate to set stronger fuel-efficiency rules for trucks and buses, a new report from an independent scientific body is urging lawmakers to take another approach: raise fuel taxes. The 2007 federal energy law aimed to set new fuel-efficiency rules for trucks as well as buses. (Photo: TTI) […]

Could Gas-Tax Bonds Pay For the Next Federal Transportation Bill?

By Elana Schor | Mar 31, 2010 | No Comments

House infrastructure committee chairman Jim Oberstar (D-MN), facing steep political odds in his push to pass a new six-year federal transportation bill this year, has begun to pitch an outside-the-box solution to the financing shortfall that is still stalling congressional action: Treasury bonds. (Photo: Pop and Politics) Oberstar’s proposal would plug the hole in anticipated […]

Transport and the Tea Party: How Conservatives Talk About the Gas Tax

By Elana Schor | Mar 26, 2010 | No Comments

The passage of health care legislation this week, while elating Democrats, has proven an equally potent motivator for conservatives advocates of states’ rights. Appearing on Sean Hannity’s Fox News show last night, Sen. Jim DeMint (R-SC) was asked about the viability of the legal challenge to the health bill filed by 14 mostly conservative attorneys […]

CA Transit Operators Hopeful State Diesel Tax Will Create Stable Funding

By Matthew Roth | Mar 10, 2010 | 1 Comment

Photo: Richard Masoner When Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger proposed eliminating the sales tax on gasoline in his new budget, transit operators and advocates saw the announcement as a move to subvert a California Supreme Court ruling that required the state to stop raiding transit funds. Rather than comply with the court’s ruling, they argued, the Governor […]

Could a New Kind of Fuel Tax Help Break the Senate Climate Deadlock?

By Elana Schor | Mar 2, 2010 | No Comments

Even before the Senate environment panel pushed through a GOP protest to approve its climate change bill, Sens. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), Joe Lieberman (I-CT), and John Kerry (D-MA) were working behind the scenes on a so-called "tripartisan" plan that can win enough votes in Congress’ upper chamber to make nationwide emissions cuts a reality. (from […]

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