Word: gals
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...consumers, perhaps the most visible sign of inflation during the next few months will be gasoline prices. Although the Administration is sticking by its earlier prediction that decontrol of oil prices would trigger only about a 3?-per-gal. rise, some other estimates keep coming in higher. Representative John D. Dingell, chairman of the Interstate and Foreign Commerce Committee's Energy and Power Subcommittee, calculates that gasoline prices could skyrocket to 90? per gal. Most experts doubt that the petroleum retailers will boost prices anywhere near that much, since the summer driving season will soon be over and demand...
...shade in June), there is no reason to think that August figures will be much better. The latest report covers only part of the surge in grain prices that followed Russian purchases and does not include coffee boosts triggered by a frost in Brazil or a 3?-per-gal. hike in gasoline...
Last week President Ford sent Congress a message that seemed to ask for legislation to correct the situation. He focused on the federal gasoline tax, proposing to siphon 30 of the 40 per gal. away from the highway fund. Two of those pennies would become part of the Government's general revenues and could theoretically be used to aid mass transit, or indeed to bankroll any federal program. The remaining cent would go to the states, which in theory could also use the money for any purpose...
...President's plan is far less innovative than it appears to be. In fact, it is a collection of politically attractive revisions that change almost nothing. The highway fund would still receive $3 billion a year from the remaining 10-per-gal. tax and the other levies -enough to continue to finance road building at close to its present massive scale. At the same time, much of the new money channeled to the states would still be used for highways; most states have provisions written into their constitutions that require all funds raised by gasoline taxes to be spent...
Committed Money. What about the 20-per-gal. tax that would swell the Government's general revenues? That money would not be available for mass transit, welfare, defense or anything else: it has in effect already been committed to highways. The Department of Transportation's budget projections through 1981 call for federal spending of about $2.2 billion a year-roughly the same amount provided by the trust fund today -to maintain rural, suburban and urban roads and make them safer. Moreover, under Ford's plan, mass-transit funds that used to come from the highway trust would...