There may be a legitimate question as to whether drivers will pay less at the pump if federal gas taxes are suspended. But what if gas taxes are raised, as some in Congress still favor?
Two Pittsburgh-area congressmen hosted the chairman of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee yesterday, as they lobbied for increases in long-term federal highway and bridge spending… Paying for increased transportation funding, Mr. Oberstar said, could require raising the 18.4-cents-per-gallon federal gas tax, instituting public-private construction partnerships and using federally supported bond measures.
Oberstar is aware that analysts are predicting that gas prices will remain extremely high for the foreseeable future. Nevertheless, he stands by the need to raise gas prices–regardless of the effect it’s having on drivers and consumers. How much higher do gas prices have to go before they’re just high enough?
