{"id":186183,"date":"2026-05-07T12:13:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T12:13:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/186183\/"},"modified":"2026-05-07T12:13:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T12:13:10","slug":"erie-county-legislature-committee-eyeing-gas-tax-cap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/186183\/","title":{"rendered":"Erie County Legislature committee eyeing gas tax cap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Erie County Legislature on Thursday will be talking about how to give residents some relief at the pump.<\/p>\n<p>During a mid-day Finance and Management Committee meeting, the legislature says it will propose capping Erie County&#8217;s share of the gas tax.<\/p>\n<p>It says the move could help residents during a time when the gas prices continue to rise.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The county made a similar measure in 2022\u00a0when it exempted any county gas tax over $2 per gallon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Erie County Legislature on Thursday will be talking about how to give residents some relief at the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":186184,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[8255,1611,136,138,137,139,50,1592],"class_list":["post-186183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-erie","tag-app-local-state-politics","tag-buffalo","tag-erie","tag-erie-headlines","tag-erie-news","tag-news","tag-politics","tag-spectrum-news-staff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186183\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/186184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}