http://dc.streetsblog.org/2009/11/30/lahood-to-congress/ Your daily source for national transportation policy news and analysis. Thu, 09 Feb 2012 23:57:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://dc.streetsblog.org/2009/11/30/lahood-to-congress/comment-page-1/#comment-89081 mattotoole Mon, 30 Nov 2009 22:52:01 +0000 http://dc.streetsblog.org/?p=53241#comment-89081 We can always argue about the number but the real problem is that it's a flat cents per gallon instead of a percentage. So when fuel prices go up, demand and sales drop, and tax revenue goes down with it. Since the overall trend for fuel prices will be upward, we need to address this issue. We can always argue about the number but the real problem is that it’s a flat cents per gallon instead of a percentage. So when fuel prices go up, demand and sales drop, and tax revenue goes down with it. Since the overall trend for fuel prices will be upward, we need to address this issue.

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