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Iowa Fuel Tax

Wednesday, January 25, 2012

PATCH POLL: Opinions Split on Iowa Fuel Tax Hike, What Do You Think?

Iowa lawmakers plan to propose an 8- to 10-cents-per-gallon fuel tax increase.

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  • Wednesday, January 25

We spend a lot of money on gas already, and the price is expected to go up. That's why on the surface a suggested Iowa fuel tax hike leaves a sour taste for many motorists, even if the tax is only 8 to 10 cents per gallon and will go to maintain Iowa's roads. Iowans are split on what to do. What do you think? Vote in the Patch Poll below and let us know in comments. In Cedar Falls, lawmakers Sen. Jeff Danielson, a Democrat, says he is keeping an open mind to a gas tax increase because something is needed to take care of the roads, while his colleague Rep. Walt Rogers, a Republican, said increasing a gas tax now would be detrimental to the economy, but added that we need to find a way to improve our roads. Economists, such as Iowa State …

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Alison Gowans

9:47 pm on Thursday, January 26, 2012

We don't have toll roads, which are how a lot of other states fund their road projects. They're both forms of "user fees." I don't think toll roads are under consideration in Iowa, but if people had to choose, I wonder what they would pick?   more ›

Tuesday, January 24, 2012

With Momentum Building for Gas Tax Increase, Cedar Falls Lawmakers Split

The Iowa gas tax, which pays for road maintenance across the state, has not been raised in 22 years.

Momentum in Iowa appears to be shifting to an increase in the state’s fuel tax, which pays to maintain Iowa’s roads. No one denies those roads need work. University Avenue, part of a renovation partnership between the city governments of Cedar Falls and Waterloo, the Iowa Northland Regional Council of Governments and the Iowa Department of Transportation, is aging and full of potholes. The DOT is also looking at plans to increase the safety of Highway 218 north of Cedar Falls, near Janesville, where dangerous intersections caused 127 total crashes between 2006 and 2010, the Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier reported. But those projects, and others across the state, cost money, lots of money, which in large part comes from the gas tax. Raising …

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Kate

8:36 pm on Wednesday, February 1, 2012

Tax the folks who haul the heaviest loads that break down our roads: trucking companies, farmers who hire 18-wheelers to haul their grain, huge SUV's---we did that years ago and we should do it again.   more ›

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