Comments on: GA Legislature: Correlating the Gas Tax with Road Costs

By: macarolina

macarolina — Fri, 04 Mar 2011 03:46:04 +0000

I also much favor this approach

By: Bobby

Bobby — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 23:05:13 +0000

As the will to raise taxes on gas rarely comes around, perhaps we should limit road building to available funds and instead apply our willingness toward a hike from the Feds (and by hike, I mean adding an energy security tax in addition to adjusting the trust fund tax).

I suggest this because I’m inclined to assign a higher priority on having the price of gasoline better reflect its true cost (and a lower priority on having the price better reflect the cost of funding roads).

By: Ridgelandistan

Ridgelandistan — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 17:40:15 +0000

As I understand it. interstate frieght is covered as they pay based on logged miles in state per axle weight. Agricultural, Aviation, Nautical and other exempt vehicles won’t need to buy special “tax free” fuel.

IMO The reason this won’t work is rather cynical and is why they want to move away from the per-gallon model to a price-based model. The per-gallon model somewhat reflects road usage and the price-indexed model is just grabbing money because they need more of it for the general fund.

By: Zachary

Zachary — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 16:50:33 +0000

This is an excellent idea, and close but not a perfect solution because of the use of out-of-state vehicles and non-motor vehicles on public roads. If there was an additional estimation collected for that amount, we’d have it covered.
And weighing stations could catch a portion of interstate use as well.

By: Decatur Metro

Decatur Metro — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 14:28:52 +0000

True, true. Thanks for clarifying.