{"id":457,"date":"2016-03-26T22:45:00","date_gmt":"2016-03-26T22:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/2016\/03\/26\/3-reasons-to-adjust-the-texas-gas-tax-from-the-50th-annual-texas-legislative-conference\/"},"modified":"2016-03-26T22:45:00","modified_gmt":"2016-03-26T22:45:00","slug":"3-reasons-to-adjust-the-texas-gas-tax-from-the-50th-annual-texas-legislative-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/3-reasons-to-adjust-the-texas-gas-tax-from-the-50th-annual-texas-legislative-conference\/","title":{"rendered":"3 Reasons to Adjust the Texas Gas Tax from the 50th Annual Texas Legislative Conference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Why adjust the gas tax?<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Gas tax has not been changed in 25 years<\/li>\n<li>Cars are more fuel efficient, so less gas is purchased and less revenue is collected<\/li>\n<li>Roads are more expensive to build than 25 years ago<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.twcnews.com\/tx\/austin\/news\/2016\/03\/18\/state-leaders-may-increase-fuel-tax-to-improve-roads.html\">Time Warner Cable News |\u00a0State Leaders May Increase Fuel Tax to Improve Roads<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Why adjust the gas tax?<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Gas tax has not been changed in 25 years<\/li>\n<li>Cars are more fuel efficient, so less gas is purchased and less revenue is collected<\/li>\n<li>Roads are more expensive to build than 25 years ago<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.twcnews.com\/tx\/austin\/news\/2016\/03\/18\/state-leaders-may-increase-fuel-tax-to-improve-roads.html\">Time Warner Cable News |\u00a0State Leaders May Increase Fuel Tax to Improve Roads<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,8,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2017-issue","category-funding","category-legislative-trend","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457","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=457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}