WPCNR MR. & MRS. & MS. WHITE PLAINS VOICE. June 5, 2006: A reader notes Assemblyman Bradley's call for pump vigilence as follows:
Dear Assemblyman Bradley,
As much as your recent piece that was published in the White Plains CitizeNetReporter asked readers to call or email your office "if they suspect a station isn't complying", your piece left a few questions wide-open regarding the extent of enforcement, as follows:
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- Are you and your staff looking out for suspect gas stations?
- What are other officials in either the legislative or executive branches, especially those with responsibility in, or for Westchester County, doing to identify suspicious gas stations?
- How many gas stations have been caught so far?
- Who are those gas stations? (I certainly want to avoid them.)
I'd be quite happy to call your office to report a violation. However, I found your explanation about the gas tax cap difficult, if not impossible to understand – seemingly only someone intimately familiar with the workings of the gas tax and the gas tax cap could understand what is supposed to happen.
Why give unscrupulous gas station operators an unfair advantage?
Did you mean, if gas costs $3 per gallon, the state tax has been reduced from 8 cents to 4 cents per gallon or from 8 cents to approximately 6 2/3 cents per gallon? Would you please provide some clarification so that drivers or the "citizen-spies" you're enlisting can make a determination when buying gasoline?
Perhaps you could provide an answer to the following:
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The existing gas tax rate or formula for sales taxes.
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For the gas tax cap just enacted, provide a formula or grid of sales taxes vs. gas costs so that sales tax reductions just enacted can be determined at various cost points -- $2.00, $2.50, $3.00, $3.50 and etc.
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Whether Gas Tax Cap information is, or is supposed to be posted at the pump or otherwise available at the gas station.
Sincerely,
John Carlson
