11.   It has proposed no gasoline tax or increase in federal gasoline mileage standards, the two measures most often advocated to cut fuel use and emissions significantly.

12.   It took decades for urban transit systems to wrest even a penny of the federal gasoline tax to help localities rationalize the way people get to and from work.

13.   It relies on revenues from the federal gasoline tax.

14.   Most Southern states contribute more in federal gasoline taxes than they receive from the federal government.

15.   One of the key factors has been a surge of interest in sport utility vehicles, which are exempt from federal gasoline consumption rules.

16.   Possibilities include a portion of the federal gasoline tax or a surtax on airline tickets.

17.   Sherman cited the example of transportation funding, mostly amassed from the federal gasoline taxes paid by consumers.

18.   The debate will include a fight over how to use revenues from the federal gasoline tax.

19.   The Senate on Tuesday failed to advance a plan that would repeal the federal gasoline tax.

20.   The Senate plans to take up legislation on Thursday to cut and potentially repeal the federal gasoline tax, but there is considerable opposition to the measure in Congress.