Natural gas fees charged to Russian customers will be gradually increased to $37 to $42 by 2006, up from the current $27 to $28 per thousand cubic meters of natural gas.
To its credit, Hotwire also shows the complete price -- minus any extra gas fees you might incur -- earlier in the process than any other online travel agency I checked.
The Legislature has committed a quarter of the state's greenhouse gas fees to the project through 2020.
The state rail authority is counting on the greenhouse gas fees to fulfill its legal obligation of matching about $3.5 billion in federal grants.
Flashman contended the restrictions should apply to all sources of money, including federal grants and greenhouse gas fees that the state now taps.
However, environmentalists also are growing weary of the high-speed rail project's use of greenhouse gas fees — given that the train may not reduce carbon dioxide emissions in the state for decades to come.
The rail authority's recently released 2016 business plan had counted on getting about $10.6 billion from the greenhouse gas fees through 2050, about half of it by borrowing on the future income stream in about 2025.
He is pushing Congress to reauthorize and dedicate full funding to the Land and Water Conservation Fund, which for 50 years has used oil and gas fees to create parks and playgrounds in urban and rural communities in every county.
The Pennsylvania Budget and Policy Center, a liberal think tank, said that at the current price of natural gas, the fee would amount to an effective tax rate of 2.6 percent, far less than the 5.4 percent in Texas.
