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Pete Buttigieg walks back comments about gas tax increase by Jeremy Lott Print this article Pete Buttigieg, President Biden s likely incoming transportation secretary, admitted in his Jan. 21 Senate confirmation hearings that raising the federal excise tax on gasoline was one option under consideration to pay for the administration s proposed infrastructure projects. Buttigieg s aides quickly walked that statement back, saying that although a variety of options were being batted around, increasing the gas tax is not among them. If Buttigieg and the Biden administration hold to that commitment, it will make funding their infrastructure plans harder. Much of the interstate system is nearing the end of its functional life and will need to be completely rebuilt over the next two decades. Cost estimates for this undertaking are above $1 trillion, Marc Scribner, a transportation policy analyst for the Reason Foundation, told the

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