Suspending the state's 18-cent-a-gallon gasoline tax amid higher prices would save the average Arizonan more than $100 a year.
Howard Fischer Capitol Media Services Gov. Doug Ducey is not interested in suspending the state's 18-cent-a-gallon gasoline tax to help Arizonans weather higher prices even though it would save the average Arizonan more than $100 a year.
"We should be expanding energy production and not pursuing gimmicks," he said. And the governor noted that those dollars pay for road construction and repair projects in Arizona"that need resources." And that, he said, started with the decision of the president on his first day in office to cancel the permit for construction of the Keystone XL pipeline which would have transported crude oil from Canada to Nebraska. There it would have connected with other projects to reach Gulf Coast refineries.But Ducey brushed aside questions about whether he had any short-term solutions, given that it would have taken years to build Keystone.
Nor does he believe that suspending Arizona's levy makes sense"especially when we have infrastructure projects in the state that need resources." But ADOT spokesman Doug Nick said there would be more than the immediate loss of dollars for programs.
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