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Askew noted that money for secondary road maintenance and improvements comes from gasoline taxes. As higher prices and shortages at the tanks have reduced consumption, gasoline tax revenue has dropped, he explained.
“I rather suspect funding will be limited,” Askew stated. He estimated that Rappahannock will receive approximately $400,000 in secondary road funds next year. During 1979-80, the county got $432,000 for 231 miles of secondary roads.
The decline in revenue comes at a time when highway dollars are already stretched by inflation. Askew reported at the May, 1979, county road hearing that the per ton cost of asphalt, for example, had tripled since 1972.
“You all just bum some gas and give us more gas taxes so we’ll have the funds,” he said, half seriously and half injest. "That's going to be a problem next year."
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