{"id":427,"date":"2016-02-23T22:11:00","date_gmt":"2016-02-23T22:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/2016\/02\/23\/western-state-to-lower-gas-tax-3-bits-informed-intel\/"},"modified":"2016-02-23T22:11:00","modified_gmt":"2016-02-23T22:11:00","slug":"western-state-to-lower-gas-tax-3-bits-informed-intel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/western-state-to-lower-gas-tax-3-bits-informed-intel\/","title":{"rendered":"Western State to Lower Gas Tax. 3 Bits Informed Intel."},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>California is set to reduce its gas tax by 2.2cents.<\/li>\n<li><strong>How did California get here?<\/strong>\u00a0To keep budgeter hands off California general revenue when paying off transportation bonds, Gov.\u00a0Schwarzenegger and his Legislature &#8220;swapped the state\u2019s sales tax on transportation fuel for an equivalent \u201cgallonage tax.\u201d&#8217;<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0each 1-cent adjustment to the tax is worth about $149.2 million\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sacbee.com\/news\/politics-government\/capitol-alert\/article61879237.html\">Sacramento Bee |\u00a0<strong style=\"font-weight:bold;\">AM Alert: California set to lower gas tax by 2.2 cents<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<div>\n\t\u00a0<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>California is set to reduce its gas tax by 2.2cents.<\/li>\n<li><strong>How did California get here?<\/strong>\u00a0To keep budgeter hands off California general revenue when paying off transportation bonds, Gov.\u00a0Schwarzenegger and his Legislature &#8220;swapped the state\u2019s sales tax on transportation fuel for an equivalent \u201cgallonage tax.\u201d&#8217;<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0each 1-cent adjustment to the tax is worth about $149.2 million\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sacbee.com\/news\/politics-government\/capitol-alert\/article61879237.html\">Sacramento Bee |\u00a0<strong style=\"font-weight:bold;\">AM Alert: California set to lower gas tax by 2.2 cents<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<div>\n\t\u00a0<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-funding","category-legislative-trend","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427","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=427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}