{"id":407,"date":"2016-01-28T23:16:00","date_gmt":"2016-01-28T23:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/2016\/01\/28\/another-southern-republican-state-moves-to-raise-the-gas-tax-3-bits-of-informed-intel\/"},"modified":"2016-01-28T23:16:00","modified_gmt":"2016-01-28T23:16:00","slug":"another-southern-republican-state-moves-to-raise-the-gas-tax-3-bits-of-informed-intel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/another-southern-republican-state-moves-to-raise-the-gas-tax-3-bits-of-informed-intel\/","title":{"rendered":"Another Southern Republican State Moves to Raise the Gas Tax. 3 Bits of Informed Intel."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Loyal subscribers will recall thge luck Georgia had when it increased its gas tax when gas prices were low and taxpayers offered little objection.<\/p>\n<p>Now, Alabama wants to follow suit with this proposal to raise the gas tax:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>5 cent increase in the gas tax<\/li>\n<li>with the seal of approval from the\u00a0Alabama Legislature&#8217;s Permanent Joint Transportation Committee<\/li>\n<li>American Petroleum Institute says the total Alabama gas tax will be 44 cents, that is including 18.4 cents of federal gas tax<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/transportation\/267348-alabama-considering-gas-tax-hike\">The Hill |\u00a0Alabama considering gas tax hike<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Loyal subscribers will recall thge luck Georgia had when it increased its gas tax when gas prices were low and taxpayers offered little objection.<\/p>\n<p>Now, Alabama wants to follow suit with this proposal to raise the gas tax:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>5 cent increase in the gas tax<\/li>\n<li>with the seal of approval from the\u00a0Alabama Legislature&#8217;s Permanent Joint Transportation Committee<\/li>\n<li>American Petroleum Institute says the total Alabama gas tax will be 44 cents, that is including 18.4 cents of federal gas tax<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/transportation\/267348-alabama-considering-gas-tax-hike\">The Hill&#8230;<\/a><\/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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-funding","category-legislative-trend","category-roads","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407","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=407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}