Reuters: Obama Won't Raise Gas Tax

From Reuters:

The U.S. Transportation Secretary, in an acrimonious exchange at a Senate hearing on Wednesday, pledged not to raise the federal gasoline tax, the funding source for repairing America's roads and bridges.  "This administration -- in these hard economic times, with so many people out of work -- can ill afford to tell people we're going to raise the gasoline tax," Secretary Ray LaHood said after Sen. George Voinovich, a Republican from Ohio, suggested raising the tax to fund highway repairs.