Posted on 01/01/2026 12:29:26 PM PST by lowbridge
New Jersey drivers are about to get hit with a nearly 9% hike in the state’s gas tax — leaving them once again grappling with one of the highest rates in the country.
Thanks to legislation signed into law in 2024, the state — the only one in the nation to not allow self-service pumps — is raising its gas tax by 4.2 cents to 49.1 cents for gasoline and 56.1 cents for diesel Jan. 1.
The jump would average out to about $27 more per year per driver, for a total cost of $320 just for the state gas tax alone, according to the latest figures available, 2022.
“People in New Jersey are paying some of the highest gas tax rates in the country,” Alex Stevens, manager of policy and communications at the Institute for Energy Research, told The Post.
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On New Year’s Eve, New Jerseyans were paying an average of $2.833 per gallon of gas, which was just a touch lower than the $2.839 national average, according to data from the American Automobile Association.
“Even with the high gas tax, you know, the gas prices in the state are mostly a consequence of just sort of the existing infrastructure that people have in New Jersey there,” Stevens said.
“The state is geographically kind of located close by places of high demand. So they built a lot there.”
Gas prices have been trending down across the country in recent weeks, dropping to pre-pandemic levels for the first time in about five years.
New Jersey’s increase is the result of legislation that outgoing Democratic Gov. Phil Murphy signed in 2024 to jack up the tax in annual increments between 2025 and 2029.
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They voted for it, embrace the suck.
NJ folks love their Democrats and high taxes. But it could be worse, they could live in NYC ...
We don’t know that.
If they didn’t vote for this, they should have our support, not our disdain.
(NJ drivers hit with 9% state gas tax hike to kick off new year)
KEEP VOTING DEMOCRAT, NEW JERSEY!!
It’s working!! 🤣😆😂😄😸😹😹
Greaseball Gavin “Hold my Beer’ California 61.2 cents per gallon. And the that tax is tied to inflation, automatically goes up yearly. WHAT A FRICKING JOKE.
This is a common meme on Free Republic, to wish ill on any places in America which have voted for increased taxes , or do other things that contrast with our conservative values.
I agree with you and disagree with that meme. Even the most liberal states and localities in America, have people who agree with us, and who are not liberal idiots who voted for the things that we criticize here.
AI Overview
The New Jersey gas tax hike for 2026 isn’t a new, single invention but an automatic annual increase mandated by a 2024 law (Chapter 7), which established a formula tied to the state’s Transportation Trust Fund (TTF) to ensure sufficient funding for infrastructure, with (DEMOCRAT) Governor Phil Murphy signing the underlying legislation
The 2016 increase was bipartisan under Miss Piggy Chris Christie
Twice.
Because it was sold off to them as only targeting out of state drivers to make them “pay their fair share”.
I guess Oregon changed its rule. Another reason the gas prices in NJ are higher than they should be.
My sister and BIL live in Portland, OR and used to laugh that they had to have a licensed gasologist pump their gas but then they’d defend it saying the person pumping their gas was less likely to spill it on the ground.
Swallow, my psychopaths. Enjoy the suck.
Well they gotta keep funding the fraud across America!
LAST I EXPERIENCED-—OREGON ALSO DO?ES NOT ALLOW DRIVERS TO PUMP THEIR OWN FUEL.
I don’t underestimate the stupidity of the average American voter.
It would, however, be nice if the Citizens of "blue" states would get all the facts before voting, and maybe even learn from their mistakes.
(it would be a good thing if California dropped off into the ocean)
That’ll be the day I move back to Annandale
In WA state, they raised the tax on nicotine products 95%. That is on Vapes, lozenges, patches, Zyn, Alp, and chewing tobacco. Making them equal in price to cigarettes.
Guadalajara won’t do?
Getting reamed in NJ and other dusty old Democratic states. Where the bureaucrats paychecks come first. Illinois, California, NY are about the worst for larded bureaucracies feeding at the public trough
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