[2ndDivisionVet]

Which is reason #346,890 that almost everyone with two functioning brain cells is looking at moving to Texas.

[ansel12]

With our record high gas prices, it just wouldn’t have occurred to me that the action to take as the people’s elected representative, would be to raise the price more.

[VeniVidiVici]

Board member Betty Yee, who voted to raise the tax, said she did so because it is the board's duty under the 2010 law to set the rate so that tax revenue remains consistent.

Ummmmmmmmm. So why do they need a board to decide this if all they have to consider is whether or not the tax revenue has remained "consistent"?

[Don W]

In Needles California last November I drove past a Valero station and choked on my coffee: $5.299/gallon, for REGULAR!

The station was closed, I wonder why...

[Axenolith]

Those douchebags are already reaping a windfall on gas since SALES tax is also applied to it. if you’re in a 10% county, sales tax is actually higher than excise...

[jonrick46]

The State of Washington wants a ten cents a gallon increase. With a 37.5 cents a gallon gas tax, an additional ten cents a gallon will make Washington State the fourth highest gas tax behind Connecticut that has a 48.6 cents a gallon tax. Currently California is taxing gasoline at 48.6 cents a gallon. A 3.6 cents a gallon increase in California, will make it the highest taxed state (above New York’s 49 cent/gallon) in the United States.

With the California at the level of taxation and regulation it imposes on its citizens, the only people able to survive will be Hollywood and those engaged in illegal activities.

[NoLibZone]

"due to a $157 million shortfall in gas-tax revenue in fiscal 2012, and also a projection of less consumption by California drivers. "

If we use less gas they will raise the taxes on gas. "Progressives" are frauds form their first breath.

[pbmaltzman]

We have already planned to move to Arizona by around May of this year. This is just ONE MORE REASON to get the H3LL out and STAY OUT!

[pbmaltzman]

We have already planned to move to Arizona by around May of this year. This is just ONE MORE REASON to get the H3LL out and STAY OUT!

[rbg81]

The state Board of Equalization...

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Sounds like something right out of “Atlas Shrugged”.

[blueunicorn6]

Here’s what the country club Democrats in California need. Good roads to their favorite restaurants. Everybody off their beaches. Fewer cars on their roads. Somebody to weed the garden and clean their pool. Airports for their private jets. Fewer people on their golf courses and tennis courts.
California has royalty, and they want the middle class to eat their cake someplace else.

[WalterSkinner]

..we are just about to the point out here where the whole thing collapses like one of the twin towers—with no one to clean up the rubble...

[Lurkina.n.Learnin]

Because gas prices in California just aren’t high enough.