The media never tell us that gas prices generally go up in mid-april and May. Instead they blame the increase on Trump.
Blue states will add it back in.
They can suspend the federal gas tax, but that will not change the fact that gasoline prices will continue to go up and that’s not going to really help anybody at the gas pump.
Now you have states like Illinois and California that have very high state gasoline taxes you take those off and those people might see a little relief.
But will that happen I doubt it
Don’t do it. Oil prices are easing. Gas stations will follow due to competition. When things subside and you decide to let the gas tax begin again, the Press will hammer you with the price increases.
18.4 cents taken off a gallon is not enough, unless he cuts the price by 50% first.
Thanks to Gov. Pritzker, Illinois gas tax is going up 50c a gallon starting in July.
Yeah, well, Tulsa county stations won’t reflect any such suspension.
Graphs @ the link.
The United States federal excise tax on gasoline is 18.4 cents per gallon and 24.4 cents per gallon for diesel fuel.[1][2] Proceeds from the tax partly support the Highway Trust Fund. The federal tax was last raised on October 1, 1993, and is not indexed to inflation, which increased 122% from October 1993 until November 2025. On average, as of April 2019, state and local taxes and fees add 34.24 cents to gasoline and 35.89 cents to diesel, for a total US volume-weighted average fuel tax of 52.64 cents per gallon for gas and 60.29 cents per gallon for diesel.[3]
State taxes
The first US state to tax fuel was Oregon, introduced on February 25, 1919.[4] It was a 1¢/gal tax.[5] In the following decade, all of the US states (48 at the time), along with the District of Columbia, introduced a gasoline tax. By 1939, many states levied an average fuel tax of 3.8¢/gal (1¢/L).
In the years since being created, state fuel taxes have undergone many revisions.[6] While most fuel taxes were initially levied as a fixed number of cents per gallon, as of 2016, nineteen states and District of Columbia have fuel taxes with rates that vary alongside changes in the price of fuel, the inflation rate, vehicle fuel-economy, or other factors.[7]
The table below includes state and local taxes and fees. The American Petroleum Institute uses a weighted average of local taxes by municipality population to create an average tax for the entire state. Similarly, the national average is weighted by the fuel volume sold in each state. Because many states with the highest taxes also have higher populations, more states (i.e., the less populated ones) have below-average taxes than above-average taxes.
Most states exempt gasoline from general sales taxes. However, several states collect full or partial sales tax in addition to the excise tax. Sales tax is not reflected in the rates below.
Taxes on gasoline and diesel for transportation by US state in US cents per gallon as of July 2025[8]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuel_taxes_in_the_United_States
Make it permanent.
CALIF GAS TAX===62.577 CENTS A GALLON
Bad idea — that tax finances needed roads.
Better — drop ethanol and stop blue states from hindering oil production and gasoline refining.
California gas tax/gal tl...$0.90/gal
Gas in WA state would go down by $1.40 overnight if the gas tax here was suspended.
“No tax on gas”
Wait! I know! He could just empty the Strategic Petroleum Reserve!
Oh. Wait.
Send to someone who needs https://t.co/768e43RBSz pic.twitter.com/bL0gBmHUYy— The White House (@WhiteHouse) May 11, 2026
Trump needs to slow the amount of gas being exported and allow our inventories to catch up some.