Washington State has the 9th highest gasoline taxes.
10th highest for diesel.
The goal is to get you out of your car.
The result will be getting more out of your state.
Yeah, but that’s just taxes at the pump. WA state has all sorts of hidden taxes, like the barrel tax and the new hazardous substance tax that is supposed to penalize oil companies for particulate in the air that settles on the roads and ends up in the storm water. All the extraneous hidden taxes get passed on to the consumer at the pump.