Posted on 12/30/2014 8:55:48 AM PST by P.O.E.
Driving in Pennsylvania will get more expensive in 2015 so enjoy the lower gas prices at the pump while we have them.
As of Thursday, the state's uncapping of another third of its oil company franchise tax will cause it to rise by 10 cents a gallon and that likely will impact what you pay at the pump.
But with gas prices averaging $2.48 a gallon on Sunday according to GasBuddy's daily survey of 241 gas outlets in Harrisburg, even if that full increase is passed along to consumers it would still keep the per-gallon price well below the $3 or higher price that motorists had paid in recent months.
Later in the year, motorists can expect increases in the cost of vehicle registrations, driver's licenses and inspection stickers as well.
On July 1, annual passenger car and motorcycle registration will rise by $1 to $37 and $19, respectively. Pickup truck registration will rise $1.50, to $60 and antique, classic and collectible vehicle registration by $2, to $77.
Thanks Corbett! /s
Forgot to hit the “excerpt” button. More at link.
what a thoughtful pioneering move.....
Gotta pay for all the “structurally deficient” bridge replacement projects.
Burn more (and higher( gas using detours to replace bridges, sometimes for no reason other than the sidewalks aren’t up to current ADA specs.
Politicos get cheaper by the dozen, the rest of us pay and pay and pay.
Thanks Tom Corbett! This idiotic bill helped usher Communist empty suit Tom Wolf into the governor’s mansion. Corbett should have had the decency to step down to “spend more time with his family”, and not run for a second term.
Way to go Pennsylvania! Tax all those evil oil companies to death!.............[do I really need a /s tag?]............
Price of gas goes down, add more gas tax, this is all just price control via taxation...
I think, HE thought, with the gas industry ensconced in Pa and a few more dollars in a LOT of people's pockets, the dime, though exorbitant, was not to be THAT grievous and would help ease some of PA's financial woes.
We STILL have out of control pension plans that WILL be paid ... not that there is a will to pay them ... but that PA (and indeed most of the US) does not have the guts to stand up to and fight the unions that WILL fight for "their" money
Well, it “makes sense”, if you’re a “government owns everything” type of person,
that if the gas price goes down, the consumers should pay the difference to the government.
After all, discretionary spending money in the hands of individuals won’t be spent correctly.
RIBBIT!
it is under $2 in SC now
It was 2.75 Christmas eve in PA
Then they'll go about wasting it on trains,bike paths and other ‘sustainable’ bullcrap.
Republicans raised it under Ridge and Corbett... Republicans controlled both houses and governorship both times...
Fast Eddie was a crook, but the reality is in PA, republicans have raised the gas tax every time they have had complete control since I lived in this state.
THis happened long before the gas prices “plumetted” is just the next step in a bill that passed years ago, this was going to happen no matter what price gas was at the pump.
Oh here comes Gov Wolfie...he can’t WAIT to take over and turn Western PA into Southern NewYork State (a “green” anti fracking paradise). Look for our unemployment rate to soar (and have yet another RustBelt Exodus) when MOST good paying oilfield jobs go to OH and WV...then comes the down turn in the service related oil jobs (trucking, specialty steel, pipe fitters, welders, etc...YET many unions supported Wolf over Corbett).
Pennsylvania, snatching poverty from the hand of prosperity.
You are 1000% correct. We DONT have RINOS we have “TrojanDems.”
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