HB 519 started out as a bill to crack down on certain electronic devices used in motor vehicle thefts, but after lawmakers were summoned to the emergency Sept. 30 session, a Senate committee reported out a substitute bill, adding the gas-tax holiday.
“Lawmakers from both parties said it’s unlikely that the full savings will be passed to consumers, as oil companies and fuel distributors are likely to keep a portion and not reduce prices by the full amount of the tax,” Pelzer reported.
So what does our Editorial Board Roundtable think of the gas-tax holiday? It was backed by both Republican and Democratic nominees for governor, Vivek Ramaswamy and Dr. Amy Acton, who proposed it before Ramaswamy did…