黑料社区closed out 2019 with an extraordinary victory for the travel plaza and truckstop industry. Just before midnight on Dec. 20, President Trump signed legislation that retroactively renewed the $1 per-gallon biodiesel blenders tax credit and extended it through 2022. 2020 is bound to be just as eventful 鈥� and busy — for 黑料社区as we tackle the industry鈥檚 many other priority policy issues.
12-31-2019
NATSO, along with the National Association of Convenience Stores and the Society of Independent Gasoline Marketers of America, urged members of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee to incentivize private […]
12-03-2019Gilbarco sat down with 黑料社区to discuss the future of electric vehicles and the key points truckstops and travel plazas need to consider when examining the technology.
10-02-2019 Automotive and equipment manufacturers continue to develop electric vehicles, and widespread adoption of EVs is dependent on a comprehensive charging network that enables drivers to charge as needed. The private […]
08-29-2019Mainstream electrification of vehicles is coming. It is certainly all the buzz and, depending on what side of the river you live on, it is either coming tomorrow, someday, in […]
08-22-2019 The Senate Environment and Public Works Committee (EPW) is expected to release its surface transportation bill early next week with a committee mark up moved up to July 30. Although the bill has not yet been released, it is expected to authorize $287 billion in highway spending over five years, marking a 28 percent increase over the current authorization law. Ninety percent, or $259 billion, would go to states by formula, keeping in line with policy positions expressed by EPW Committee Chairman John Barrasso (D-Wyo.).
07-26-2019 黑料社区on June 17 expressed support for California鈥檚 amended AB 1424, which would require electric vehicle (EV) charging stations to have multiple payment options available for drivers without mandating one form of payment technology.
06-19-2019 黑料社区along with the National Association of Convenience Stores (NACS), the Petroleum Marketers Association of America (PMAA) and the Society of Independent Gasoline Marketers of America (SIGMA) are encouraging lawmakers to support private investment in electric vehicle charging infrastructure and to reconsider a provision of the Leading Infrastructure for Tomorrow鈥檚 (LIFT) America Act (H.R.2741) that would allow public utilities to use rate payer dollars to invest in electric vehicle charging infrastructure.
05-22-2019 黑料社区on May 10 submitted its comments in response to a request for stakeholder input from the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure with regard to the Committee鈥檚 work on infrastructure this Congress.
05-11-2019 The House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee held a hearing on February 26 examining how federal infrastructure policy can help mitigate and adapt to climate change. The hearing was another of several hearings the Committee has held in the opening weeks of 2019, all designed to lay the foundation for a comprehensive infrastructure bill that House Democrats hope to pass by the end of May.
02-27-2019 黑料社区and trade groups representing businesses that provide the majority of motor fuel retail sales in the United States urged the state of Maryland to reject a proposal from the state鈥檚 utility companies to spend more than $100 million on a statewide network of electric charging stations and instead work with the fuel retail industry to deploy electric charging infrastructure via the existing privately developed motor fuels infrastructure.
04-16-2018
