WASHINGTON, DC –(ENEWSPF)—December 4, 2014. Today, Congressmen Earl Blumenauer (OR-03) and Tom Petri (WI-06) stood together to call on Congress to raise the nation’s gas tax in order to save the failing Highway Trust Fund, which funds the United States transportation infrastructure. The event coincided with the one-year anniversary of Blumenauer’s introduction of the Update, Promote and Develop America’s Transportation Essentials (UPDATE) Act and with Congressman Petri joining Congressman Blumenauer as a cosponsor of the legislation earlier in the week. The UPDATE Act would phase in a 15 cent increase to the gas tax over a period of three years and would index it to inflation.
