Georgia governor cuts gas tax for 30 days over pipeline outage that lasted under three weeks

…(cont) Georgia's governor suspended the state's gas tax for 30 days into that climate, the price spike offered as the reason. On 21 September, Democratic gubernatorial nominee Keisha Lance Bottoms pressed him to do the same for the diesel tax specifically, as prices kept climbing at the pump. The politics of the cut were still being argued in Georgia a full week after the emergency that caused it had already started to resolve elsewhere.

Because on 22 September, oil fell for a fifth straight session to a two-week low, on hopes the pipeline would reopen and on hopes of a diplomatic path out of the Iran war.

This week, the pipeline reopened. Saudi Aramco resumed operations on the repaired line. Brent eased to $106.72 a barrel. West Texas Intermediate eased to $92.11. The Washington Examiner's word for the move was "slightly" — the softest kind of relief, but relief, and dated to the outage's actual end.

Run the two clocks side by side. The pipeline was out from its 11 September shutdown to a reopening the wire places sometime this week — under three weeks, on any reading the receipts allow. The tax holiday is written to run 30 days. The emergency that supplied the rationale closed out before the rationale's own paperwork does.

What the state has forgone in motor fuel tax over those 30 days does not appear in anything filed above, hon. The barrel prices are public, dated, and easy to check against each other. The number the state itself is out has not shown up anywhere yet.