{"id":1423,"date":"2011-10-18T11:55:07","date_gmt":"2011-10-18T16:55:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/?p=1423"},"modified":"2012-12-20T10:17:34","modified_gmt":"2012-12-20T16:17:34","slug":"oklahoma-ranked-15th-in-return-on-federal-fuel-tax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/2011\/10\/18\/oklahoma-ranked-15th-in-return-on-federal-fuel-tax\/","title":{"rendered":"Oklahoma Ranked 15th in Return on Federal Fuel Tax"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1424\"  class=\"wp-caption module image right\" style=\"max-width: 300px;\"><a class=\"fancybox\" title=\"caption\" href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2011\/10\/ok_overpass.jpg\" rel=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1424\" title=\"Oklahoma Overpass\" src=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2011\/10\/ok_overpass-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-media-credit\">Cosimovecchio \/ Flickr<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oklahoma receives $1.31 in federal highway money for every $1 OK drivers spend on federal fuel taxes.<\/p>\n<\/div><p>The federal government returns .31 cents on top of every dollar Oklahomans pay in federal fuel taxes, according to a recent report from the Government Accountability Office.<\/p><p>The numbers, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stateline.org\/live\/details\/story?contentId=607243&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+StatelineorgRss-Oklahoma+%28Stateline.org+RSS+-+Oklahoma%29&utm_content=Google+Reader\">analyzed<\/a> by stateline.org, show that Oklahoma and Arkansas tied for the No. 15 spot in a state-by-state breakdown of federal highway aid.<\/p><p><!--more-->Alaska topped the list at $4.99 per dollar return, while Texas took the No. 50 spot with only $1.03 per dollar.<\/p><p>The study (right-click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gao.gov\/new.items\/d11918.pdf\">here<\/a> to download) was requested by Congress, which is searching for a long-term surface transportation plan since the last major highway bill expired in 2009.<\/p><p>According to the numbers, every U.S. state received more federal highway money than its drivers paid in federal fuel taxes.<\/p><p>States often don\u2019t use the federal money for highways, Stateline reported.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThis flexibility, coupled with a rate-of-return orientation essentially means that the Federal-Aid Highway Program functions, to some extent, as a cash transfer, general purpose grant program,\u201d the GAO concluded in the September report.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The federal government returns .31 cents on top of every dollar Oklahomans pay in federal fuel taxes, according to a recent report from the Government Accountability Office.The numbers, analyzed by stateline.org, show that Oklahoma and Arkansas tied for the No. 15 spot in a state-by-state breakdown of federal highway aid.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":1424,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[492,15],"tags":[134,22,133],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1423"}],"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=1423"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1423\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1434,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1423\/revisions\/1434"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}