How to Tackle Gas Prices in Illinois – The Illinoize

“Both of them have a challenge for elected officials,” Jim Watson, Executive Director of the American Petroleum Institute-Illinois, said of the statewide taxes on gas. “If you decide to cut, reduce, end the sales tax that we put on gasoline, that’s going to cut resources for and funding for local governments. Or, you can reduce the Motor Fuel Tax, but that funding goes to expenditures on capital projects like redoing our highways and building our bridges.”