A 90-day gas tax holiday

[PDittie]

Yesterday afternoon a handful of Texas Progressive Alliance bloggers -- me, Vince, Charles, Matt, some others -- got on a conference call with Rep. Trey Martinez Fischer, who has proposed a summer-long gasoline tax holiday for Texas drivers.

Last week DallasBlog published his op-ed where he laid out the program:

HB 120 would impose a 90-day moratorium on the fuel taxes collected on every gallon of gasoline and diesel in Texas. At .20 cents a gallon, HB 120 takes $4.00 off your gas bill on a 20-gallon tank. That’s like getting 1 1/3 gallons of free gas. If you own more than one vehicle, your savings doubles.

The money -- around $700 million -- does not come from the state's budget surplus, nor does it short-change other highway projects. It comes from a projected increase in Federal Highway Adminstration funds, already approved but not earmarked, of $788.1 million (according to his website, GasTaxCut.com) .

[movie_girl99]

1. i signed it

this is great info. i passed it along. Thanks!

[movie_girl99]

2. you should post this in GD as well

maybe other states will get on the band wagon.