Sentence examples for gasoline budget from inspiring English sources

The Houston Police Department exceeded its gasoline budget of $8.7 million last year and expects to spend $11.3 million this year.

Yet, in the past few months, the county, which purchases gas every six months and stores it in county tanks, has had to increase its $1.5 million gasoline budget three times, with an infusion of $23,600 in June and $60,000 in July, and $30,000 set for August.

At the other end, there are cheap and free smartphone applications to enhance the trip or help you plan your gasoline budget.

The Houston Police Department blew past its gasoline budget of $8.7 million in 2007 and spent more than $11 million on gas in 2008.

Concerns include volatile gasoline prices, the budget deficit and an impasse in Washington over taxation and fiscal policy.

In a speech to the National Press Club on June 22, William S. Norman, the president of the Travel Industry Association, said that although travelers were worried about rising gas prices, the "average American family traveling by auto will spend only about five percent of its total vacation budget on gasoline".

San Diego figures to spend more than $3 million more than it budgeted on gasoline.

UPDATE: Robert Reich channels his inner David Bowie to make a similar argument - that, in his words, Obama's putting out a fire with gasoline by accepting the budget-cutting premise at a time when we need government spending.

He said the proper time to take up the matter of fuel taxes -- which account for three-quarters of the cost of gasoline -- was during the budget review in November and the presentation of the budget itself in March, and he suggested that his ministers would be meeting with some of the protest leaders before then.

It's that we can't even implement proven common-sense solutions that others have long mastered — some form of national health care, gun control, road pricing, a gasoline tax to escape our budget and carbon bind.

He also flatly ruled out an increase in the gasoline tax to balance the budget and said, "We will do everything possible to avoid raising the income or sales tax".