Blumenauer revs up campaign for first gas tax boost in 2-plus decades

Portland Business Journal:

Rep. Earl Blumenauer is amping up his efforts to push the first federal gas tax increase in 23 years.

Blumenauer, who also addressed the topic during a meeting with Business Journal staffers earlier this summer, told the area’s Joint Policy Advisory Committee on Transportation that road construction costs are increasingly being covered from other pots of money.

Primarily, as a Metro news report noted, the income tax.

Blumenauer told JPACT that the tax should rise from 18 cents a gallon to around…

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