West Virginia would be hard-pressed to look to its sister states, or even the federal government, for a better way to fund road repair and building needs. The recent special legislative session helped highlight the Mountain State's revenue quandary. Lawmakers voted to block a scheduled Jan. 1 increase to the state's motor fuels tax, to help consumers with high prices at the pump. But they also had to set aside $40 million for the State Road Fund to offset expected losses from that tax, the fund's chief revenue source.
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