LETTERS: FUEL-TAX FIASCO IS BLOT ON LETISLATORS

To the editor:

I desire to comment on your front-page article April 16 regarding fuel-tax money siphoned off roads.

I am no longer a petroleum marketer, but as a member of the Oil Jobbers of Missouri Association we tried to bring this issue up a number of times. The law was changed to allow road-tax money to be used for other things than road repair and replacement. This was done over the protests of many who could foresee our present results: a deteriorated road system. This is not a fault of the Missouri Department of Transportation. This is a fault of the Legislature and its favorite agenda.

I hope the taxpayers will pressure the Legislature to return to the system of spending road-tax money on roads. I am sure we are being primed for an increase in road taxes, and I will vote for it as soon as I am assured the road tax is used on construction and repair of the roads we drive on.

EARL W. STOVALL

Jackson