Huffington Post: Did A Giant Pothole Swallow Your Car? Blame Congress.

The issue, said Carl Davis, research director for the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, is growing in importance every year that state and federal governments fail to update gas tax rates. “We are reaching a breaking point right now as evidenced by all the gas tax increases we’ve seen enacted in just a little over two years’ time at the state level,” said Davis, who noted that at least two more states are moving toward an increase. That would bring the total to 18 state-level hikes.

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