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Originally Posted by Rev.Vassago

Can someone please explain how a fuel tax holiday works? After all, those fuel taxes are used to offset the highway use taxes. As far as I can see, you'll end up paying the taxes anyway, whether you pay them at the pump or not.

Am I just not looking at this correctly? :? It seems to me that if the states really wanted to help the truckers, they would do something about the highway use taxes. :roll:

You are exactly right. You will end up paying them one way or the other and will still pay them at the pump if they decide to cut fuel tax then impose windfall tax on oil companies. The more the government takes from those companies the more they are going to charge us to recoup that profit margin, who knows, cutting the gas tax may end up costing you more in the end. The oild companies are going to meet their margins like they always do and you know damn well anything the government loses from cutting gas tax they will take back from you in another area. Its all political trckery crap, its damn near close to trying to buy votes. If they really wanted to do something to help and had our best interests in mind they would have worked on solutions long before diesel and gas started hitting $4 a gallon. I kind of see it as a spit in the face that things have been allowed to get in such piss poor conditions and now they want to throw .20 cents our way for a couple of months. And as said above in another post, it will probably just be a gateway to pushing harder for tolls that will cost you more than the fuel tax in the first place. They can keep their fuel tax for all i care, do something thats really going to make a difference and stop trying to buy the votes with a token gesture.

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Like the "fuel tax holiday" was ever supposed to help truckers :lol: :lol:
It's there so 4 wheelers can eat at fast food joints more often.

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Originally Posted by duck

Tell you what - if 21 cents isn't a big deal, lets jack it up another 21 cents and see who does and doesn't complain.

Fuel can hit $10 a gallon for all I care. Every time the price of fuel goes up 30 cents, my profit goes up 1 CPM.

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Is this a done deal or just talk?

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The way I heard this explained on the radio today; the propposal is not a fuel tax holiday, but rather a sales tax holiday.