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Anna Lueck/OPBThe counties鈥� report comes as lawmakers try to craft a transportation funding plan. -
Kristyna Wentz-Graff/OPBFacing a funding pinch, the Oregon Department of Transportation says cutting staff could impact roads and people statewide.
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Finding a solution to the state鈥檚 road funding problems is one of the highest-profile 鈥� and politically tricky 鈥� problems lawmakers will consider next year. -
Taxes on gas and vehicle fees fund about a third of California鈥檚 transportation spending. But as the state transitions away from gas-powered vehicles to electric, a new report says this will need to change. -
Sen. Brian Boquist and Rep. Anna Scharf say Democrats have ignored an unconstitutional disparity in how heavy trucks are being taxed versus personal vehicles. Their push for a special session is unlikely to succeed. -
Would you prefer to pay a couple of cents for every mile you drive in exchange for not having to pay gas tax or those steep electric car registration fees? -
After weeks of talks, state lawmakers are told there is a tentative agreement on California tax relief between Gov. Newsom and legislative leaders. It includes refunds of as much as $1,050, but officials caution that the deal isn鈥檛 final. -
Gov. Gavin Newsom proposed pausing tax increase on gas sellers and Republican state lawmakers have pushed for suspending the tax entirely in the short term. Those plans would likely reduce the price of gas, but it鈥檚 not clear by how much. This week Newsom teased a possible rebate to deal with gas prices. -
A proposed tax on gasoline and diesel delivered to out-of-state customers from Washington refineries has gone by the wayside. -
Majority Democrats in the Washington Legislature on Tuesday narrowly beat back a third attempt to squelch a new tax they proposed on gasoline and diesel exported to neighboring states from Washington refineries. -
Where'd the cheap gas go? Before spring arrived, gas still cost under three dollars a gallon in Oregon. Now it's well over three dollars in much of the鈥� -
Welcome to the age of what comes AFTER gasoline taxes.Fuel taxes pay for road repair and maintenance... or did. The advent of hybrid and straight-electric鈥� -
Cars and trucks generally pay their road taxes through the gas pump鈥� those taxes are added to the price of a gallon of gasoline. But hybrids and straight鈥�
