Roads Not Ruts! Campaign
Ending gas-tax funding of motorized recreation.
User-Funded implementation of Standards to
Protect minnesota

Most Minnesotans, including elected officials, do not understand that every time we buy gas in Minnesota citizen taxpayers pay into accounts for snowmobiles, ATVs, dirt-bike motorcycles, four-wheel drive trucks and motorboats.

3% of the state's gas-tax revenue is annually diverted to motorized recreation with many unwanted effects. With the recent legislative override of the governor's veto the state gas-tax has been increased 42.5% from $0.20 to $0.285 per gallon. This increase means motorized recreation is now siphoning almost $50 million bienially from our state's roads and bridges.

$50 million is a lot of money that could cover basic needs being funded with this tax increase: $7 million for more state troopers, $24 million for a new Mn/DOT building in Mankato, $1 - 3 million for new interchanges in Woodbury and other metro communities. $50 million dollars would repair or replace the state's locally fractured bridges.

With an almost $935 million projected state government deficit, economic justice demands that gas-tax diversions to motorized recreation be repealed.

Minnesotans want roads not ruts!

MRR's 2008 campaign protects our state from the unwanted effects of gas-tax funded motorized recreation on three fronts:

1. End gas-tax diversions to motorized recreation

2. User-funded implementation of Five Standards

3. Citizen Audits of local fiscal agent sponsors of gas-tax funded snowmobile, ATV, dirt-bike motorcycle and four-wheel drive truck clubs