One of the more intriguing issues of the Oregon Legislative session will be the dynamic between whether to allow the low-carbon fuel standard approved in 2009 to go into effect and how that would impact proposals to increase the state gas tax to fund transportation projects at the state and local level.  Republican 59th District Representative John Huffman thinks majority Democrats can get the votes to put the low-carbon fuel standard into effect…but they need a 60 percent vote for a gas tax increase, and they are one vote short in the House of being able to do that on a party-line vote.  That could lead to a compromise.  The Oregon Department of Environmental Quality estimates a low-carbon fuel standard could increase gas prices between four and 19 cents a gallon, while the Western States Petroleum Association estimates the increase at between 33 cents and a dollar-six cents a gallon.