{"id":346,"date":"2015-11-20T18:31:00","date_gmt":"2015-11-20T18:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/2015\/11\/20\/east-west-texas-editorials-support-raise-the-gas-tax-3-reasons-why\/"},"modified":"2015-11-20T18:31:00","modified_gmt":"2015-11-20T18:31:00","slug":"east-west-texas-editorials-support-raise-the-gas-tax-3-reasons-why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/east-west-texas-editorials-support-raise-the-gas-tax-3-reasons-why\/","title":{"rendered":"East &#038; West Texas Editorials Support Raise the Gas Tax. 3 Reasons Why."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Both the Beaumont Enterprise and the Midland Reporter-Telegram ran editorials supporting raising the gas tax.\u00a0<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>2015 Prop 7 is not enough for transportation funding<\/li>\n<li>The state still needs $5 billion per year for transportation funding<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;The only realistic answer is increasing the gasoline tax, which hasn&#8217;t changed since 1991&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mrt.com\/opinion\/article_3d3f298c-79d6-11e5-ad28-17711bb6b7be.html\">Midland Reporter-Telegram |\u00a0Texas highways need more funding, higher gasoline tax<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Both the Beaumont Enterprise and the Midland Reporter-Telegram ran editorials supporting raising the gas tax.\u00a0<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>2015 Prop 7 is not enough for transportation funding<\/li>\n<li>The state still needs $5 billion per year for transportation funding<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;The only realistic answer is increasing the gasoline tax, which hasn&#8217;t changed since 1991&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mrt.com\/opinion\/article_3d3f298c-79d6-11e5-ad28-17711bb6b7be.html\">Midland Reporter-Telegram |\u00a0Texas highways need more funding, higher gasoline tax<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,10,5,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-funding","category-legislative-trend","category-roads","category-txdot","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}