CHANUTE — Mike King’s son traded a pickup truck that got about eight miles per gallon for a foreign-made hybrid car that averages 50 mpg of fuel.
Therein, said King, secretary of the Kansas Department of Transportation, lies advantage for the motorist, but a funding problem for highway construction and maintenance in the state.
About 50 percent of KDOT’s funding comes from a 24-cent-per-gallon tax on gasoline.
“As efficiency of cars and trucks improves, our funding goes down,” King told a handful of public…
Fuel efficiency a bane for KDOT
