Issue / Fuel tax

CBO Updates Trust Fund, Tax Forecasts

Today, the Congressional Budget Office released its annual budget baseline. (A preliminary version was released in February, but this...

CBO Accelerates Prediction of Gas Tax Decline; Sees Recovery of Aviation Tax Base

As part of its annual budget outlook release this week, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office updated its 10-year federal excise...

U.S. Gasoline Use Hit All-Time High in FY 2022

The volume of motor gasoline in the United States hit an all-time high in the just-completed fiscal year 2022, with oil companies...

Eno Launches New Research Initiative to Help Define Parameters for a National VMT Fee Pilot

What if we charged drivers by the miles they drove rather than the gallons of fuel their cars consume? Perhaps more importantly, how...

Gas Price Decreases Track Crude Oil Price

Gasoline prices have dropped 80 cents per gallon in the last two months, with prices outside large cities poised to go below $4.00 per...

White House Endorses 3-Month Gasoline Tax Holiday

President Biden today endorsed a three-month suspension of the 18.4 cent-per-gallon federal excise tax on gasoline. The President made...

Biden Calls on Congress to Enact 3-month Gas Tax Holiday

“All this does is make the trust fund even more dependent on the general fund [for maintaining roads and bridges], as opposed to...

Annual Update: Lost Gas Tax Purchasing Power, 2021 Edition

With the related release of the final 2021 highway construction cost inflation number by the Federal Highway Administration, we can...

Amidst Record-High Gas Prices, House Passes Anti-Gouging Bill; Senate Committee Will Consider More Limited Bill Next Week

The House of Representatives passed a bill yesterday to make "unconscionably excessive" or "unreasonably" high gas prices illegal,...

Gasoline Prices Rise Again, Diesel Supplies Tightening in Northeast

The House of Representatives is scheduled to vote next week on a bill making it a federal crime to sell gasoline at an "unconscionably...

What Is A Fuel Tax Holiday And Why It May Help

While a fuel tax holiday seems like a win all around, there are potential fallacies that could erupt for the seemingly...

Transportation Experts Skeptical Of Gas Tax Holiday As Prices Increase

“The public policy can only affect a small piece of it, which is the tax part,” Puentes said. “And so I'm just skeptical that...

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