Fuel Tax Quotes

Federal gas tax revenues that are paid into the trust fund by highway users should be used for programs that benefit highway users.

A gas tax could be one important element of an integrated energy policy.

There is a profiteer when it comes to oil. 36 to 63 cents per gallon is swept off the top. And who profits from that? The government profits from it. And what does the government do with much of that money? It puts it into so-called 'alternative energy,' with so-called phony 'green jobs' that we're yet to see being produced.

I suggested that countries with tighter finances think about such a [fuel] tax. We don't have the time at the moment for months of discussion.

The lesson for the next U.S. president: Raise the taxes on fuel. A lot.

Hillary Clinton has decided to line up with John McCain in pushing to suspend the federal excise tax on gasoline, 18.4 cents a gallon, for this summer's travel season. This is not an energy policy. This is money laundering: we borrow money from China and ship it to Saudi Arabia and take a little cut for ourselves as it goes through our gas tanks. What a way to build our country.

One of the things we worry about when we cut the tax on gasoline is that it basically stimulates additional use.

Parisians overwhelmingly buy small cars. And it's not because people are petite, but because fuel is drop-dead expensive. Gasoline costs more than twice as much in Paris as in New York.

The gasoline tax is a user fee, but it does not fill enough of the need, and you want cars to be more efficient.

I oppose indexing gas tax hikes to inflation.

The last time we raised the gas tax, which is how we built the interstate system, was 1993.

I just don't think it's good public policy to tax fuel. It's kind of silly. It stops people from traveling and actually costs the economy more money than what you gain in the taxes.