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Utah’s gas tax may get replaced by logging miles or congestion pricing

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The gas tax — a state tax on every gallon of gas — has typically been earmarked for roads. But with more fuel-efficient or zero-fossil-fuel vehicles on the roads, it is having a budgetary impact. Potholes still have to be filled, and political leaders acknowledge they can't keep expanding freeways.

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