{"id":13699,"date":"2013-04-05T12:20:03","date_gmt":"2013-04-05T17:20:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/?p=13699"},"modified":"2013-04-05T12:20:03","modified_gmt":"2013-04-05T17:20:03","slug":"could-cng-vehicles-hurt-oklahoma-roads-down-the-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/2013\/04\/05\/could-cng-vehicles-hurt-oklahoma-roads-down-the-road\/","title":{"rendered":"Could CNG Vehicles Hurt Oklahoma Roads, Down the Road?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When it comes to natural gas, Oklahoma lawmakers and corporate leaders are aggressive drivers.<\/p><p>The Sooner State is big on CNG-fueled cars and trucks, which have fewer greenhouse gas emissions than their gasoline and diesel-powered counterparts. CNG vehicles also run on a commodity that is currently abundant, cheap and domestically produced \u2014 in Oklahoma and by Oklahoma companies.<\/p><p>But natural gas and gasoline have another key difference: taxes. Gasoline taxes help pay for state roads and bridges, so what does a CNG future mean for road funding? It&#8217;s a potential problem, <em>The Oklahoman<\/em>&#8216;s <a href=\"http:\/\/newsok.com\/new-vehicles-could-lead-to-tax-policy-changes\/article\/3779874?custom_click=rss&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+newsok%2Fbusiness+%28NewsOK.com+RSS+-+business%29\">Adam Wilmoth reports<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Oklahoma Energy Secretary Mike Ming said the question of road taxes will need to be addressed at some point, but that it&#8217;s not much of an issue today.<\/p><p>\u201cThe reality is that it is going to take some time just to get enough vehicles built to make a difference,\u201d Ming said. \u201cWhen that happens, I think public policymakers will say, \u2018We addressed imports and national security and balance of trade. Now we need to address how we fund roads and bridges.&#8217;\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When it comes to natural gas, Oklahoma lawmakers and corporate leaders are aggressive drivers.The Sooner State is big on CNG-fueled cars and trucks, which have fewer greenhouse gas emissions than their gasoline and diesel-powered counterparts. CNG vehicles also run on a commodity that is currently abundant, cheap and domestically produced \u2014 in Oklahoma and by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[490],"tags":[522,238,229],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13699"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13699"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13699\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13707,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13699\/revisions\/13707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}