Local gas tax distributions pay for everything from paving and bridge repairs to snow removal and road salt. Mike Braun first suspended the gas tax in April following skyrocketing oil prices in February, when the U.S. launched attacks on Iran. But Mike Sharp, the highway superintendent in Wayne County, said receiving reimbursements in late fall would be a problem. But Todd Listerman, the Dearborn County highway engineer, said he took the governor’s pledge in April to backfill local road funding at face value. “Really, this has had no effect at all at our county highway department,” he said.