fuel tax by state

• Pennsylvania Petroleum Distribution Group Opposes Fuel Tax Amendment Approved by State House

HARRISBURG, Pa., Oct. 11 /PRNewswire/ -- While Pennsylvania's businesses and consumers are struggling through the worst economic downturn in a generation, the Pennsylvania House of Representatives last week adopted an amendment that would impose a new, hidden fuel tax on businesses that sell -- and consumers who rely on -- biodiesel fuel. John Kulik, executive vice president of the Pennsylvania Petroleum Marketers and Convenience Store Association (PPMCSA), said an amendment to SB 901 that was passed during a last-minute flurry of legislation debated before the House adjourned for its election recess imposes new burdens on small businesses and the customers they serve. The amendments would add another new fee, or tax, on companies that sell biodiesel fuel in Pennsylvania. Each convenien...

• U.S. Newswire
• October 11, 2010

• Committee Approves Increasing Fuel Tax ; State House: The Bill Would Raise the Tax by 11 Cents Over Four Years to Pay for Road Maintenance.

The Transportation Committee voted Thursday to send to the Legislature a proposal to increase the fuel tax by 11 cents over the next four years to pay for maintenance of state roads. The proposal also would eliminate the current indexing of the tax to inflation, which critics have complained puts fuel tax increases on "automatic pilot.

• Portland Press Herald
• May 29, 2009

• Wagnon, Secretary, Kansas Department of Revenue v. Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation, 546 U. S. (2005)

SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES. Syllabus . WAGNON, SECRETARY, KANSAS DEPARTMENT ...Kansas' motor fuel tax applies to the receipt of fuel by off-reservat...

• U.S. Supreme Court

• States' 2005 Ballot Items Foreshadow '06

With Hurricane Katrina pushing gas prices to $3 a gallon, Oklahoma voters Sept. 13 overwhelmingly defeated a proposal to raise the state's fuel tax by 5 cents a gallon over three years. The measure would have raised the state's gasoline tax from 17 cents to 22 cents a gallon to establish a road and bridge repair trust fund.

• Arizona Capitol Times
• November 30, 2009

• 2017 and Later Model Year Light-Duty Vehicle Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Corporate Average Fuel Economy Standards

EPA and NHTSA, on behalf of the Department of Transportation, are issuing this joint proposal to further reduce greenhouse gas emissions and improve fuel economy for light-duty vehicles for model years 2017-2025. This proposal extends the National Program beyond the greenhouse gas and corporate average fuel economy standards set for model years 2012-2016. On May 21, 2010, President Obama issued a Presidential Memorandum requesting that NHTSA and EPA develop through notice and comment rulemaking a coordinated National Program to reduce greenhouse gas emissions of light-duty vehicles for model years 2017- 2025. This proposal, consistent with the President's request, responds to the country's critical need to address global climate change and to reduce oil consumption. NHTSA is proposing C...

... to the Draft Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) at these hearings and to Docket No. NHTSA-20...

• Federal Register Nbr. 76 FR 74854, December 01, 2011
• Proposed rules
• Transportation Department

• Lawmakers May Hike State's Motor Fuel Tax by One Dime Next Session ; Members of the Legislature's Joint Transportation, Highways and Military Affairs Interim Committee Voted 11-3 in Favor of a Phased- in Fuel Tax Increase That Would Raise Wyoming's Fuel Tax Rates From 14 Cents to 24 Cents Per Gallon of Gasoline or Diesel by 2013.

By Michelle Dynes mdynes@wyomingnews.com

• Wyoming Tribune - Eagle
• October 12, 2010

• Forest Industry Bills Seek Relief Fuel Tax Rebate Among 4 Proposals to Be Heard by Legislature

Four bills aimed at offering some relief to forest industry workers burdened by high diesel fuel costs, including a temporary repeal of the state's 28 cent a gallon fuel tax, have been proposed and will be heard by early March, state legislators said Tuesday. Of the four, the fuel tax rebate proposed by state Sen. Elizabeth Schneider, D-Orono, likely will face the greatest opposition. If enacted, it could cost the state as much as $750,000 in lost revenues per month, she said.

• Bangor Daily News
• February 06, 2008

• Fuel-Tax Hike Takes Detour, but Still Alive ; the 11-Cent Increase Over Four Years May Move to a Separate Bill As It Awaits Support.

A proposal to increase the state fuel tax by 11 cents over the next four years to pay for road maintenance has met with some resistance, forcing lawmakers on the Transportation Committee to reconsider the concept. The proposal would increase the tax while eliminating the current indexing of the tax to inflation, which critics have said puts fuel tax increases on "automatic pilot.

• Portland Press Herald
• May 27, 2009

• Anti-Tax Crusader: 'Put It to the People' ; Grover Norquist Returns to Maine for a Tax-Cap Fundraiser - This Time for Tabor Ii.

The passage of a tax cap by voters in a moderate Northeastern state like Maine would fuel momentum for similar efforts around the nation, said Grover Norquist, president of Americans for Tax Reform. Question 4 on Maine's Nov. 3 ballot is simply a mechanism for giving voters the final say over spending increases, Norquist said Thursday at a news conference at the Marriott at Sable Oaks.

• Portland Press Herald
• October 09, 2009

• Punditry

Wrong alternatives Last-minute negotiations over the tax package could send America's energy policy in exactly the wrong direction. If budget- conscious Republicans have their way, tax credits for renewable energy sources like wind and solar power would be allowed to expire, while wasteful and unnecessary tax breaks for corn ethanol - an environmentally dubious fuel supported by farm-state legislators of both parties - would be extended. This would be a preposterous outcome at a time when the nation desperately needs new investment in clean energy as well as the jobs that go with it.

• The Virginian-Pilot and The Ledger-Star, Norfolk, VA
• December 10, 2010