21.   They include repealing the federal gasoline tax, threatening oil companies with price-gouging investigations and imposing price caps on electricity.

22.   They should declare a moratorium on collection of all federal gasoline taxes until the highway trust fund is spent down to a modest cushion.

23.   They resist sharing any part of federal gasoline tax revenues with the railroads.

24.   To make the federal reformulated gasoline, refiners must blend in an oxygen-enhancing component.

25.   Although the Senate cannot initiate tax legislation, the vote could revive efforts to cut the federal gasoline tax.

26.   But the idea of a cut in the federal gasoline excise tax was getting a cool reception from the very lawmakers who write the tax laws.

27.   Cheney left open the possibility of President Bush backing a reduction of the federal gasoline tax and spoke positively about fuel economy standards for automobiles.

28.   Some congressional Republicans want to lower the federal gasoline tax in response to increasing pump prices.