U.S. Secretary of Transportation Mary Peters is blasting a congressional committee’s proposal to raise the federal fuel tax 5 to 8 cent/gal per year (from the current 18.4 cent/gal) over the next five years to generate revenues needed for improving the nation’s surface-transportation system. The money will be “squandered on earmarks and special-interest programs,” she said. The National Surface Transportation Policy and Revenue Study Commission, on which Peters serves, issued its report in January. It also recommends that the next surface transportation authorization act require a major national study to develop ideas for revenue-raising alternatives to the fuel tax.
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