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No wonder the Democrats don't support the Gas tax holiday. They don't pay Taxes like the rest of us on the fuel they're using. Since March, staffers working on the Democratic National Convention have been using the city of Denver's tax-free Gas pumps to fill up their cars — and using its carwashes. A dispute about this prompted city officials Tuesday to promise that the local host committee will reimburse the city at a market rate for Gas — and pay state and federal Taxes on the fuel. It was never the intent of the city not to properly charge the Democrats for the fuel or its Taxes, said Katherine Archuleta, mayoral liaison to the convention. Some Denver City Council members became angry when Denver public-works employee Christine Downs told them Tuesday that the host committee will reimburse the city for the carwashes and tax-free fuel it is using for its fleet of vehicles. Councilwoman Jeanne Faatz reacted sharply. She said she didn't think it was fair that local host-committee employees, as well as those with the Democratic National Convention Committee (DNCC) who use those cars, are driving around on tax-free fuel. Given the DNC is $11 million short on its convention, the City Council might want to do a credit check before fronting any more fuel. Perhaps the DNC is using all the money it saves on Taxes to buy offsets to reduce its carbon footprint without breaking the bank. Or maybe the money is going to the balloon budget. ... Source: www.thesunchronicle.com --- 21 hours ago
The rising price of Gas is having a profound effect on the highways, both good and bad. ... Source: www.politicswest.com --- 12 hours ago
Since March, staffers working on the Democratic National Convention have been using the city of Denver's tax-free Gas pumps to fill up their cars - and using its carwashes. A dispute about this prompted city officials Tuesday to promise that the local host committee will reimburse the city at a market rate for Gas - and pay state and federal Taxes on the fuel. It was never the intent of the city not to properly charge the Democrats for the fuel or its Taxes, said Katherine Archuleta, mayoral liaison to the convention. read more ... Source: www.worldchanging.com --- 17 hours ago
Clark Williams-Derry: The Texas highway department says no. I thought this was interesting. The Texas highway department – Texas, no less! -- says that roads simply... ... Source: www.corpreform.com --- 12 hours ago
No, I'm not making that argument. An economist who obviously has no trouble paying to fill his Gas tank is: A new gasoline tax that ensured high prices would accelerate the move toward fuel-efficient vehicles and provide enough revenue to... ... Source: sacredscoop.com --- 23 hours ago
Democrats Look to Raise Gas Taxes. Yes, you heard that right folks- Congress is looking to raise Gas Taxes another 10 cents, from the current 18.4 cents a gallon on gasoline and 24.3 cents, during a time when the country is suffering the most due to already artificially inflated Gas prices. Unbelievable- Yes, let’s vote [...] ... Source: lubblog.typepad.com --- 5 hours ago
I always suspected it, but now there is proof. I have thought for a long time that federal and state highway and bridge construction jobs were just massive employment projects and not about building roads and highways in the first... ... Source: news.yahoo.com --- 1 hour ago
What it says and shows: The camera shows a television on a kitchen counter with Young's face on the screen. A voice says: "Don Young on the Gas tax."...It shows Young in a subcommittee hearing saying "I'd suggest we raise the Taxes to a dollar a gallon. ... Source: www.freerepublic.com --- 15 hours ago
The committee hosting the Democratic National Convention has used the city's Gas pumps to fill up and apparently avoided paying state and federal fuel Taxes. The practice, which began four months ago, may have ended hours after its disclosure. An aide to Mayor John Hickenlooper released a statement Tuesday evening saying that Denver 2008 Host Committee members would pay market prices for fuel and would also be liable for all applicable Taxes. However, Public Works spokeswoman Christine Downs told City Council members just hours before that host committee members were fueling up at the city pumps. The city does not... ...
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Republican U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Dole had an audience of N.C. broadcasters to herself Monday after a plan for her to debate Democratic opponent Kay Hagan fell through. Dole spoke about broadcast issues, including those involving the advent of digital TV. But most of her remarks were devoted to issues such as energy, Taxes and housing. Speaking to about 150 members of the N.C. Association of Broadcasters at the Grove Park Inn, she called for attacking high fuel pricesthrough conservation and increasing oil supplies in part by allowing off-shore drilling. On energy and other issues, Dole said, “We need to put politics aside.” Wade Hargrove, the group's longtime attorney, said broadcasters invited both Senate campaigns to debate and that Hagan's accepted while Dole's did not. Dole had accepted an earlier invitation to keynote the broadcasters' convention. “The U.S. government has direct regulatory authority for the broadcast industry,” Hargrove said. “We would have invited her whether there was a campaign or not.” Brian Nick, Dole's chief of staff, said the debate proposal came up late. “I heard a rumor that there may be a debate there,” he said, “but never saw anything substantive.…This was certainly not in the mix.” Hagan's spokeswoman, Colleen Flanagan, said: “It's not surprising to us in the least that Elizabeth Dole would choose not to participate in a statewide televised debate. “There would no doubt be questions about high Gas p ... Source: www.thepetitionsite.com --- 21 hours ago
Think $4 for a gallon of Gas is high? America's record-high prices at the pump are a mere fraction of the true cost of oil, when we figure in the lost jobs, higher Taxes, terrorism threats, unnecessary wars, death and health problems caused by our dependence on oil. As a nation, we spend nearly $51 million on foreign oil each hour. Not only are U.S. taxpayers paying record-high prices at the pump, we are also providing big oil companies with billions of dollars in subsidies despite their record profits. It's time for our government to enact a comprehensive national plan to free us from oil dependency. Call on the presidential candidates, your representatives and your senators to develop a plan before Independence Day 2009 to end our addiction to oil! ... Source: newsbusters.org --- 18 hours ago
Democrats in Congress may not have acted on Sen. John McCain's proposal for a summer Gas tax holiday, but that hasn't stopped the Democratic National Convention from getting tax-free Gas courtesy of the citizens of the Mile High City, reports the Denver Post this morning. Filed as breaking news and published at 8:13 EDT on July 23, the Post's Allison Sherry has the scoop here . Below is an excerpt: Since March, staffers working on the Democratic National Convention have been using the city of Denver's tax-free Gas pumps to fill up their cars - and using its carwashes. A dispute about this prompted city officials Tuesday to promise that the local host committee will reimburse the city at a market rate for Gas - and pay state and federal Taxes on the fuel. It was never the intent of the city not to properly charge the Democrats for the fuel or its Taxes, said Katherine Archuleta, mayoral liaison to the convention. Kudos to the Denver Post for tracking down the story. We at NewsBusters will be tracking if the national broadcast media picks up the story, although I personally doubt it will get much traction what with the Obama World Tour commanding the MSM's attention. ... Source: www.poynter.org --- 10 hours ago
The interstates you drive on are paid for, largely, by the Taxes you pay on gasoline and diesel fuel. Right now you pay 18.4 cents a gallon in federal tax. So, when we start driving less -- and we are driving less -- the highway trust fund starts drying up. By next year, the LA Times says , the highway trust fund could be more than $3 billion in the red. No doubt you should be checking with your state highway department to find out what this means in your state. The story says: The fund, set to finance about $40 billion in transportation projects next year, is increasingly strained. And the problem has taken on greater urgency as lawmakers face a backlog of projects to maintain the nation's aging interstate highway system and ease traffic congestion. "The situation has only been exacerbated by rising fuel prices, which are causing motorists to drive less and resulting in less revenue for transportation improvements," said David Bauer, senior vice president for government relations at the American Road and Transportation Builders Association . The piece adds: In the short run, lawmakers are scrambling to figure out how to close the gap. Federal highway spending nationwide could be cut by a third beginning Oct. 1, according to the American Road and Transportation Builders Association. "The condition of the highway trust fund has been deteriorating for years, but skyrocketing Gas prices have made an already dire situation worse," sa ... Source: blog.heritage.org --- 13 hours ago
Congressman John Boehner of Ohio is set to introduce The American Energy Act, which will most importantly increase America’s energy supplies. The bill calls for leasing regulations for offshore natural Gas by 2010, removing restrictions for outer continental shelf drilling, and opening up sections of ANWR for drilling. As The Heritage Foundation’s Senior Policy Analyst Ben Lieberman has been arguing this even when Gas prices were around $1 a gallon. More energy supplies, not more Taxes and regulations, are what this country needs . It’s economics 101: expanding supply is the surest way to lower energy prices, and the quicker Congress moves to open up restricted areas, the quicker more resources will be available. As my colleague Michael Franc writes, it is the first time in awhile House Republicans are leading the charge on producing more in America here at home. Now that Gas prices are surpassing $5 a gallon in some states, consumer pressure is causing a number of Members to switch their stance on drilling. Franc notes , Recently, freshman Rep. Steve Kagen (D., Wisc.), who previously voted the environmental line, got religion. “Drill for new oil across America,” he wrote in the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel. On the Republican side, Maryland conservative Rep. Roscoe Bartlett, who has also opposed drilling, recently co-sponsored a plan to open up the vast oil and Gas resources under the Alaskan Coastal Plain for exploration and developmen ... Source: blackandright.mndnet.com --- 23 hours ago
While some Capitol Hill lawmakers (unified against drilling for oil to ease the people's pain at the pump) are tossing around the idea of raising gasoline Taxes on the rest of us, they seem to believe those rules shouldn't apply to them. How liberal. The committee hosting the Democratic National Convention has used the city's Gas pumps [...] ... Source: www.spectator.co.uk --- 18 hours ago
Things keep getting worse for BP’s Russian venture, which is now one of the world’s major oil producers. Today the company said it would reluctantly pull its remaining seconded staff out of the country after a prolonged row about work permits. This is merely the latest in a long string of disputes that the AAR consortium of four Russian billionaires which co-owns TNK-BP has raised with its British partners, which also includes trying to get rid of chief executive Robert Dudley. Until recently, BP seemed to have done all the right things in Russia – paying plenty of Taxes, keeping on the right side of Vladimir Putin, maintaining a line that if you perform well as a foreign investor, the Russians will want you to stay and will treat you right. Clearly that’s not the case in reality. Russia may hold important cards in the global energy game, but it still needs western technology and western buyers of oil and Gas. Why is it treated as a paid-up member of G8 when its government sanctions this kind of intimidation against BP’s legitimate interests? ... Source: TheState.com --- 1 day ago
Higher Gas prices and an overall economic downturn mean people are eating out less in Columbia — which is bad for restaurants but could be worse for the Main Street Latin Festival, Riverbanks Zoo and a RuPaul event sponsored by S.C. Pride. Those groups depend on hospitality tax money — the two cents on the dollar you pay every time you eat out. The city already has committed $4.4 million of that money to a number of arts groups, and Councilman Daniel Rickenmann, who owns Mo Mo’s Bistro, wants to hold 25 percent of the money in reserve to protect the city in case hospitality Taxes fall short. That means the 47 small arts groups that depend on that money to put on an array of festivals and programs would only be guaranteed 75 percent of their allotment — another casualty of a slow economy. So groups like S.C. Pride, which is bringing drag queen RuPaul to Columbia on Sept. 20, would get $7,500 instead of $10,000. ... Source: www.ibrattleboro.com --- 14 hours ago
I received a bill from Keene Gas charging me $36 for minimum use, because we only use about 50 gals per year. I'm ok with that but when I saw that they taxed on this FEE I decided to question it. I checked with VT Dept of Taxes at http://www.state.vt.us/tax/contact.shtml and was told that as long as the propane is used for residential purposes it is not taxable and neither is the minimum fee. Keene Gas has been charging VT sales tax on their deliveries to VT for at least 2 years now. Check your invoices. I'm curious to see how wide spread this is. ... Find more results for Gas Taxes on RSSMicro.com |
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DENVER (AP) - Members of the committee hosting the Democratic National Convention are filling their tanks at city-owned Gas pumps, avoiding state and federal fuel Taxes. ...