Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s desire to throw a lifeline to Chicago motorists by temporarily rolling back this year’s 3-cents-a-gallon fuel tax increase is understandable, gas prices being what they are these days.
“I’ve talked to residents who are saying, ‘I can’t afford to fill up my tank. I’m riding on a quarter of a tank,’ ” Lightfoot said last week. “That’s not the way people should have to live.”
