{"id":589,"date":"2016-09-07T18:21:00","date_gmt":"2016-09-07T18:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/2016\/09\/07\/1-state-filling-gas-tax-hole-with-tax-on-hybrid-and-electric-cars-3-points-to-know\/"},"modified":"2016-09-07T18:21:00","modified_gmt":"2016-09-07T18:21:00","slug":"1-state-filling-gas-tax-hole-with-tax-on-hybrid-and-electric-cars-3-points-to-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/1-state-filling-gas-tax-hole-with-tax-on-hybrid-and-electric-cars-3-points-to-know\/","title":{"rendered":"1 State. Filling Gas Tax Hole with Tax on Hybrid and Electric Cars. 3 Points to Know."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The state:<\/strong>\u00a0Maine<\/p>\n<p><strong>The tax proposal:<\/strong>\u00a0Fill the $168 million annual gas tax hole with a tax on hybrid and electric cars<\/p>\n<p><strong>What opponents say:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A tax on hybrids and electric cars is not enough to fill the $168 million annual shortfall<\/li>\n<li>Bonds are a tool, but shouldn&#8217;t be relied on for road and bridge maintenance<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bangordailynews.com\/2016\/09\/05\/opinion\/contributors\/taxing-hybrids-and-electric-cars-alone-wont-solve-maines-road-funding-problem\/\">Bangor Daily News | Contibution by Transportation Committee Chair | Taxing hybrids and electric cars alone won\u2019t solve Maine\u2019s road funding problem<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The state:<\/strong>\u00a0Maine<\/p>\n<p><strong>The tax proposal:<\/strong>\u00a0Fill the $168 million annual gas tax hole with a tax on hybrid and electric cars<\/p>\n<p><strong>What opponents say:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A tax on hybrids and electric cars is not enough to fill the $168 million annual shortfall<\/li>\n<li>Bonds are a tool, but shouldn&#8217;t be relied on for road and bridge maintenance<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bangordailynews.com\/2016\/09\/05\/opinion\/contributors\/taxing-hybrids-and-electric-cars-alone-wont-solve-maines-road-funding-problem\/\">Bangor Daily News | Contibution by Transportation Committee Chair | Taxing hybrids and electric cars alone won\u2019t solve Maine\u2019s road funding problem<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-funding","category-roads","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589","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=589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}