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areas such as mine,” said Senator Miller. who represents Harrisonburg and Rappahannock, Culpeper, Madison, Page and Rockingham counties in Senate District 2b.
"I wifi encourage the use of alternative sources of revenue in an effort to avoid this tax," added Sen. Miller. "In particular I hope that this lost revenue may be replaced with money from the general fund.”
Virginia's highway maintenance and construction funding is linked to gaoline taxes, currently nine cents at the pump. Highway funds are decreasing because of motorists' driving less to conserve fuel.
The governor’s officials estimate that a four percent wholesale tax on gasoline would yield $127 million a year and would increase the price at the pump by four to five cents a gallon.
"The governor’s biennial ■vudget sounds all right. I
fguess," said Delegate Beard, r'but I'm dubious about the gasoline tax, and I’m going to find out what it is going to do in my district."
Del. Beard represents Rappahannock. Culpeper, Madison and Orange counties in House District 26.
“In 1973-74, Gov. Mills E. Godwin Jr. declared a moratorium on new road construction." added Del. Beard, “and maybe we ought to think about that again."
A $9.1 billion budget proposed by former Gov. Godwin two years ago actually climbed to approximately $10 billion because of unreported income from federal sources.
Del. Beard frowns when he mentions the governor's proposed $140 million in aid—called the largest single program ever recommended in Virginia—to some urban localities as part of an annexation immunity package the General Assembly passed but did not fund last year.
An amendment to that bill stipulates that money will be given the localities “if funds
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