{"id":1044524,"date":"2021-11-22T14:58:52","date_gmt":"2021-11-22T19:58:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1044524"},"modified":"2021-11-22T14:58:55","modified_gmt":"2021-11-22T19:58:55","slug":"ron-desantis-florida-legislature-to-pursue-1-billion-in-gas-tax-relief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ron-desantis-florida-legislature-to-pursue-1-billion-in-gas-tax-relief\/","title":{"rendered":"Ron DeSantis: Florida Legislature to Pursue $1 Billion in Gas Tax Relief"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fron-desantis-florida-legislature-to-pursue-1-billion-in-gas-tax-relief%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1044524&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\">The Florida&nbsp;legislature will&nbsp;pursue providing $1 billion in gas tax&nbsp;relief in the next session, Gov. Ron&nbsp;DeSantis (R) announced on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking in Daytona, Florida, from the iconic convenience store Buc-ee\u2019s, DeSantis laid out the negative economic state of affairs for the American people.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re happy to be here. We\u2019re not as happy at seeing what\u2019s happening with a lot of the inflation that is going on in the economy. If you look, for example, for Thanksgiving, the price of a Thanksgiving dinner is up over 20 percent just over last year,\u201d he said, noting that \u2014 even with raises \u2014 people are losing ground in this&nbsp;\u201cinflationary economy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBiden said that this was not real 6 months ago, that no serious person thought inflation was real, and actually we now know this is real. We knew then, I said it then, but now everyone acknowledges. This is really really serious,\u201d he said, adding that it is hitting Americans in a \u201cvariety\u201d of ways, including gas prices.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"640\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"5.9428571428571\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Is popular Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis the best governor in America? <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/usErZQwTit\">https:\/\/t.co\/usErZQwTit<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart News (@BreitbartNews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartNews\/status\/1409614731422359554?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 28, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cIf we were standing here a year ago in Daytona, you could get a gallon of a gas \u2014 now it\u2019s $3.34. It\u2019s $1.31<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span>more than it was a year ago today just right here, and that\u2019s really true throughout the rest of the country,\u201d he said, noting that the supply chain crisis is only exacerbating the issue.<\/p>\n<p>Because of that, the next legislative session will pursue providing over a billion dollars in gas tax relief for Florida families, \u201cand that\u2019s going to make a big, big, difference,\u201d he announced.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Republican governor, the average family could save $200 in a 5-6 month period with this relief.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_18812450\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" readability=\"40\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2021\/11\/wi\/ap\/18\/biden-go-brandon-supporter-holds-up-brandon-florida-sign-florida-gov-ron-desantis-center-speaks.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-18812450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/biden-go-brandon-supporter-holds-up-brandon-florida-sign-florida-gov-ron-desantis-center-speaks-1024x683-1.jpg\" alt=\"The Associated Press\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>As supporter holds up a Brandon, Florida sign as Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, center, speaks to members of the media in Brandon, Fla. Gov. DeSantis has embraced \u201cLet\u2019s go Brandon.\u201d The Republican governor\u2019s campaign said they picked the small Tampa suburb of Brandon as the place for his signing of a bill opposing White House vaccine mandates Thursday, trolling President Joe Biden by referring to what has become a popular stand-in for swearing at the president.&nbsp; (AP Photo\/Chris O\u2019Meara)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>While he acknowledged that many things go into the price of gas, \u201che said they would be&nbsp;\u201ctaking over 25 cents from Florida and \u201czero that out as long as we can.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The state, he stressed, is in great financial shape to do so, able to help those who are \u201cgetting hammered by the rising gas prices.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo we\u2019re here to do something about it,\u201d he said, adding that companies such as&nbsp;Buc-ee\u2019s and Wawa are \u201cabsolutely committed to reducing the price when we end up enacting this.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Watch:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Florida\u00a0legislature will\u00a0pursue providing $1 billion in gas tax\u00a0relief in the next session, Gov. Ron\u00a0DeSantis (R) announced on Monday. Speaking in Daytona, Florida, from the iconic convenience store Buc-ee\u2019s, DeSantis &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1044524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1044524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1044524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1044524\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1044524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1044524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1044524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}