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President Biden calls on Congress, States for fuel tax holiday; increase in refinery capacity

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Moreover, many facilities have safely delayed projects and/or maintenance so as to not take production offline and instead continue to provide supplies and build inventories. About half of US refinery shutdowns are conversions to renewable fuel production. Other important suppliers to the US.,

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Is A Tax On Electricity (kWh) Consumed The Best Way to Supplement the Fuel Tax for Electric Vehicles?

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As sales of electric vehicles begin to reach significant numbers across the US, states are exploring approaches to replace lost tax revenue since EV drivers don’t pay fuel taxes as drivers of gas-powered cars do at gas stations. Unfortunately there is currently no simple and agreed upon best replacement for the fuel tax.

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Washington state legislature approves $16.9B transportation package; targeting all new cars to be electric with MY 2030

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836 million to build four new hybrid-electric ferries. The revenue package adopted a shift in funding sources after an export fuel tax projected to provide $2 billion in funding was removed on the House floor. . $1 billion to fund Washington’s portion of an I-5 replacement bridge across the Columbia River. Specifically: Sec.

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kWh Billing and New EV Charging Tax Policies: What You Need to Know

Blink Charging

or geothermal resources for sale for heat, light or power, or for the furnishing of telephone service, sewerage facilities or water. Charging station owners or operators are required to remit the tax monthly using prescribed forms provided by the Oklahoma Tax Commission.

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National Research Council Report Explores Improving Fuel Economy of Medium- and Heavy-Duty Vehicles; Recommends Immediately Beginning Developing a Regulatory Approach

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Instead, any regulation of medium- and heavy-duty vehicles should use a metric that reflects the efficiency with which a vehicle moves goods or passengers, such as gallons per ton-mile, a unit that reflects the amount of fuel a vehicle would use to carry a ton of goods one mile. This is called load-specific fuel consumption (LSFC).

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UC report to CalEPA outlines policy options to decarbonize California transportation by 2045

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These are: Light-duty vehicles: cars and light trucks, mostly used for personal transportation. These policy strategies are grouped into the following categories: Built environment and land use changes: Prioritize maintenance and avoid or cease new road building or road expansion. Transportation pricing: Gasoline taxes.

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We Need More Than Just Electric Vehicles

Cars That Think

fleet of light vehicles. Most EV owners recharge their cars at home or at work, meaning that chargers need to be available in garages, driveways, on-street parking, apartment building parking areas, and commercial parking lots. Those tax revenues are necessary for the maintenance of roads. Next, we turned to our model of the U.S