HARTFORD – Connecticut legislators are weighing a three-month moratorium on the state’s gasoline tax of 25 cents per gallon, reports the Hartford Courant.

Republican legislators announced their plan to suspend the 25-cent-per-gallon gasoline tax from Memorial Day to Labor Day, noting that the driver of a Honda Civic would save about $3.30 for a tank of gasoline, and the driver of a Ford Explorer would save $5.60, according to the newspaper.

Robert Stavins, an environmental economist at Harvard University, said a gasoline tax moratorium of just three months would change consumption by only a small percentage. “If we tried, we may not be able to measure a consumer response,” Stavins told the newspaper.

Environmentalists say making gasoline cheaper runs counter to Connecticut’s stated policies to reduce fossil fuel use and to get more people on buses, bicycles and trains. “It is a pro-global-warming move,” said Gordon T. Geballe, associate dean at Yale University’s School of Forestry & Environmental Studies. “Everyone is doing the opposite.”