[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 160 (2014), Part 12]
[House]
[Page 17115]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




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                            LNG EXCISE TAXES

  (Mr. YOUNG of Indiana asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. YOUNG of Indiana. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to briefly highlight 
an issue that I wish had been resolved this week, but unfortunately the 
President's veto threat of an unfinished tax extenders compromise 
caused this bill to remain fallow.
  Under the current outdated Tax Code, LNG, liquefied natural gas, is 
applied the same excise tax as other fuels despite producing different 
energy outputs per gallon. This results in LNG users facing 
disproportionately higher excise tax rates than their diesel 
counterparts, creating a perverse inequality that artificially hinders 
the attractiveness of LNG as a transportation fuel.
  So a truck fueling with domestic clean natural gas at Sellersburg, 
Indiana's LNG truck stop pays 70 percent more tax than its diesel 
counterpart across the street. An LNG-powered river tug fueling up at 
one of Ohio's river ports will, instead of paying the proposed 29 cents 
per gallon fuel tax for inland waterways, pay nearly 50 cents per 
gallon. This disparity needs to be addressed.
  There has been some constructive movement by Representative 
Thornberry. I applaud that effort and hope we can address this matter 
next year during the debate on the highway trust fund.

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