Simple question....
How much of that $4.00 per gallon is state taxes?
We all know that there is federal tax on motor fuel of $0.184 per gallon
State taxes account for the difference. We’re paying $2.699 in western NY. Another $1.00 per gallon in Commifornia?
We in California have ridden this mini-roller coaster many times before. The prices will rapidly inflate after July 4th, peaking and plateauing in the Dog Days of summer, being their highest on Labor Day.
The prices will slowly come down, but in different places from coast to coast, so that the trend is no conclusive. In our states of ‘excitement’ during the Halloween season, many will have began discovering lower gas prices. By November 6th, day of the Mid Term elections, the trend in downward gas prices will ‘suddenly’ become indisputable! Strangely, this last part, of lowering gas prices across the country, will not receive very much commentary from the media.
Calif has their own environmental gestapo, known as CARB. I think they are the cause of the crappy gas in Calif and the high cost.
Not that the EPA does not approve of course.
California sucks.
I remember back when gas was a dime a gallon God I’m old!
Up the burrito and hot sauce production. That should bring the gas prices way down.
$3.30 in Western WA state. .70 of it tax.
At Arco in Santa Cruz yesterday it was $3.30 a gallon for unleaded.
It’s $2.25 per gallon around here, in Texas. Californians are just doing this to themselves. At some point, enough of them are going to understand it’s their own fault. It’s up to them to change their own state government.
I can remember $0.22 gas wars on McKnight Rd.
It has been rising here in Alabama also. Was near $2.00 for a long time. It has now climbed to $2.40 around here and continues to inch up. Every time something happens in the Soviet Union, Red China or even North Korea, it jumps up gas prices. Let something happen in the Middle East and the gas prices go nuts.
Stop letting g Californis Politicians play petroleum enginears on TV. Two reasons gas prices are so high in California, one, the democrats design the gas to a custom blend that is more expensive and teo the Democrats tax the hell out of it.
One reason California has turned into fools gold.
Fools and Democrats, but I repeat myself.