This undated file photo shows the offices of PBS Coals Inc. in Somerset, Pa. The major southwestern Pennsylvania mining company said on Thursday, Dec. 13, 2012, that it will idle two of its mines and lay off 138 workers. (AP Photo/mbr-Johnstown Tribune Democrat-John Rukosky)FILE
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This undated file photo shows the offices of PBS Coals Inc. in Somerset, Pa. The major southwestern Pennsylvania mining company said on Thursday, Dec. 13, 2012, that it will idle two of its mines and lay off 138 workers. (AP Photo/mbr-Johnstown Tribune Democrat-John Rukosky)FILE
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In this Jan. 8, 2013 photo, a ship is loaded with cargo in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. The Commerce Department said Thursday, March 7, 2013 that the U.S. trade deficit widened in January, reflecting a big jump in oil imports and a drop in exports. (AP Photo/J Pat Carter)
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Chevron says the discoveries expand its gas portfolio in Australia.
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In this Wednesday, Dec. 5, 2012 photo, Drivers queue at a gas station in Islamabad, Pakistan. It has become a familiar site across Pakistan in recent weeks: Long lines of cars and minibuses snaking for hundreds of yards as their frustrated drivers wait to fill up their tanks with natural gas. (AP Photo/B.K. Bangash)
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In this picture taken on Wednesday, Dec. 5, 2012, Pakistanis queue in line near a gas station in Islamabad, Pakistan. It has become a familiar site across Pakistan in recent weeks: Long lines of cars and minibuses snaking for hundreds of yards as their frustrated drivers wait to fill up their tanks with natural gas. (AP Photo/B.K. Bangash)
Panel restores W.Va. electric car tax credit
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (
AP) — The
West Virginia Senate Transportation Committee has restored a tax credit for hybrid electric cars that Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin had proposed eliminating.
Tomblin's original bill would have kept a tax credit only for cars that run on natural gas, propane or butane.
The bill the committee advanced on Friday keeps the tax credit for those fuels but also for solar, electric, hydrogen and liquid coal-fueled vehicles.
The tax credit is worth 35 percent of a vehicle's price, up to $7,500.
Tomblin and the committee proposed eliminating the tax credits in 2017, four years sooner than under current law.
There are also tax credits for alternative fuel refueling stations and infrastructure. A proposal to include a tax credit for solar electricity refueling stations was shot down by the committee.
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