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Better infrastructure, fully-funded transportation would cost Americans less than a coffee per month
Last week we showed you a couple of charts that show in a fairly straightforward way, that Americans, when compared to our global peers, don’t pay nearly enough for the roads we drive on. But a new report from the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy (ITEP) examining federal fuel taxes takes things a step farther [
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October 1, 2013
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Roadbuilding
Sen. Boxer proposes removing federal gas tax, adding wholesale fuel tax
Senate Environment and Public Works Committee Chairwoman Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) said during a committee hearing Wednesday that the federal government should remove its 18.4-cents-per-gallon gas tax and replace it with an oil wholesalers fee, according to a report from The Hill. The hearing, entitled “The Need to Invest in America’s Infrastructure and Preserve Federal Transportation Funding,” [
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September 25, 2013
Senator Barbara Boxer
Business
CHARTS: Americans don’t pay enough for roads
A great report from The Atlantic Cities brings two charts into focus that do a great job of illustrating why American infrastructure is struggling. The charts were put together by Juan Gomez and JosĂ© Manuel Vassallo for the Journal of Infrastructure Systems and compile data gathered between 2004 and 2009.   The first chart compares the United States’ [
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September 23, 2013
Credit: Juan Gomez and José Manuel Vassallo
Roadbuilding
We know where you were last night: VMT a bad idea, says professor
It’s really all about privacy. Or is it? Mark J. Perry, a professor of economics at the University of Michigan and a scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, says a vehicle miles traveled (VMT) fee is a bad idea. He says, “One feature of the VMT tax is that it would require some way to [
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August 6, 2013
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Roadbuilding
Ignore the potholes; re-elect me!
Think of it as a NIMBP problem. As in a Not In My Back Pocket problem. [You know the NIMBY problem of course: yes we want you to build that horrible/dangerous/smelly —–, just Not in My Backyard] Americans want more money to be spent on our roads and bridges. They just don’t want to be [
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August 2, 2013
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Roadbuilding
Your Swine Airlines flight is ready for departure
This is a fact: Gas taxes go up. All across the country they go up. Despite what you might think from listening to Washington politicians, they do go up. This week they go up. And they go up for a variety of reasons. But they go up. For politicians elected to national office to dig [
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July 1, 2013
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Roadbuilding
The cost of gasoline: Them and us
Now this is a fun table to play with. I’m all for this sort of interactivity if I know how to work it and it is not built solely for software developers, MBAs and chess champions. Bloomberg looks at countries around the world and tell us in data from each country (a) the average price [
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June 25, 2013
(Photo: Bloomberg)
Roadbuilding
Guest Blog: Electric vehicles are becoming a taxing problem
A recent article on CNN‘s website called attention to efforts by a handful of states to collect infrastructure revenues from electric vehicles (EVs), which operate without gasoline or diesel fuel and thus do not contribute to road and bridge budgets.         The article detailed how Washington State legislators passed a $100 annual flat tax on EVs [
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June 14, 2013
( Photo: POD Point / Flickr)
Roadbuilding
Private money: A funding wildcard in 2014
It’s hard to see a time in the foreseeable future where we will have a solid supply of funding from any single source to fill the Highway Trust Fund (HTF). That’s an asterisked statement of course because an increased gas tax could do it. But that won’t happen in the foreseeable future. And neither will [
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June 13, 2013
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Roadbuilding
Gas Tax 101: 1932 – 2013
We talk gas tax all day long in this industry. We hear arguments that it should increase (I make many of them) or that it should remain where it is (largely because it would be political suicide to raise it). But this Forbes piece is a short, succinct summary of the Federal gas tax from [
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June 11, 2013
(Photo: naterade81 / Flickr)
Roadbuilding
States combat low gas tax revenues with hybrid-, electric-vehicle fees
In an attempt to battle lost taxes due to increased hybrid and electric car use, six states are working to create laws to tax fuel-efficient vehicles, Automotive News and Bloomberg reported. Electric and hybrid car sales have continuously risen in the last decade, while state and local gas tax revenues have fallen. In fact, inflation-adjusted [
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June 10, 2013
(Photo: Toyota Of Palo Alto / Flickr)
Business
A pros-and-cons overview of available options for funding transportation infrastructure
The partial collapse of the Interstate 5 bridge over the Skagit River near Seattle has put a big and bright spotlight on the need for more funding for transportation and infrastructure needs in this country. Now attention turns to the lawmakers tasked with figuring it out. During a meeting in Washington, D.C. of the Transportation [
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June 10, 2013
The partial collapse of a bridge over the Skagit River on Interstate 5 in Washington has turned attention to the need for infrastructure funding.
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