That article engages in a pet peeve of mine when high fuel prices are bemoaned:
How much per gallon are the local, state, and Federal Taxes?
In my state a gallon of gasoline has 47 cents tacked unto it due to taxes....
Your state is a piker.....look at Washington State - and I think it’s gone up since March of 2007....
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