Montana 2025 Legislative Session

[TheJason]

I wonder why they haven’t put a Costco in Cody or Sheridan?

Probably because there’s not enough customer base. The area I live in has four Costco’s within 120 mile radius. Every single one of them is booming

 

[Gulf of America]

Don’t state and federal gas taxes compensate for this?

Montana's gas tax revenue has barely increased in the last 20 years, but the price of building roads sure as hell has. The legislature has been super opposed to increasing the gas tax, probably at the behest of shipping and tourism (but also their constituents - gas prices increasing is a pretty universal way of pissing folks off), but increased fuel efficiency and now electric cars means less money coming in to somehow fix all the failing infrastructure at once.

 

[SAJ-99]

Montana's gas tax revenue has barely increased in the last 20 years, but the price of building roads sure as hell has. The legislature has been super opposed to increasing the gas tax, probably at the behest of shipping and tourism (but also their constituents - gas prices increasing is a pretty universal way of pissing folks off), but increased fuel efficiency and now electric cars means less money coming in to somehow fix all the failing infrastructure at once.

There was an agreement on funds to fix those roads last session. The governor shoved it in a drawer until the session officially ended before saying he vetoing it.
Of note, in WA I pay a higher annual registration for the wife’s hybrid than I do for my truck. And that’s with much higher gas taxes. So it is a fixable problem.