Senate backs limits on alternative fuel tax credit

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BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — The Louisiana Senate has agreed to rewrite the state’s alternative fuel vehicle tax credit program, after concerns the law had been too broadly written and cost too much.

The proposal by Baton Rouge Sen. Dan Claitor would definitively eliminate “flex-fuel” cars and trucks — which can burn ethanol but also use gasoline — from qualifying for the credit.

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