[GraceG]

Price of gas goes down, add more gas tax, this is all just price control via taxation...

[Blue Jays]

Exactly...legislators don't want people to truly see lower fuel prices in the marketplace because they know we will see it CAN be done.

To their mind, they want to see gas at $3.00 gallon.
That way, if new technology is discovered that makes it truly cost $0.50 per gallon at the pump, they will find a way to boost it back up with $2.50 worth of new taxes.

[Ghost of SVR4]

Nope. It was the idiot politicians of PA. The gas prices were way up when they passed this tax. Here’s the kicker, it automatically goes up again in 2017.
Corbett was an idiot but what will be following him (Wolf) is going to destroy PA in the long run (not that the state is doing peachy as it stands now).