Deleware NewsZap: Gas Tax-Is it Still Happening?
media mentionBy Jen Rini, May 25, 2014
The Markell administration is dead-set on generating $50 million this year for road and bridge projects and will consider raising motor vehicle fees and tolls instead of the gas tax to do so.
“I think we have heard pretty clearly while people understand the need for the revenue, the gas tax, by itself, it’s not terribly popular,” said Delaware Department of Transportation Secretary Shailen Bhatt.
According to the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, a nonpartisan think-tank, the challenge with state gas taxes is its unsustainability, as it relates to vehicle fuel efficiency and the rising cost of building infrastructure.
The institute found that 24 states have gone more than a decade without raising their gas tax rate, and on the federal level the gas tax has not increased for the last 20 years.
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