Gasoline taxes

[MillCreek]

https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/transportation/whats-your-gas-tax-stickers-coming-soon-to-the-pump/

Huh.  So Washington is number two in the nation for gasoline taxes.

[Ben]

CA should have you beat next year when the second phase of our increase kicks in. I'm actually more surprised at PA than WA.

[charby]

Ours went up a dime a couple years ago, this last week pretty much every local news did an article or story about where the money has gone.

http://globegazette.com/news/local/iowa-gas-tax-hike-paying-off-for-local-state-road/article_c65d877d-94e9-5720-9da1-a087b4de3482.html

TLDR version, stuff is getting fixed and built. Iowa is a relatively low population state with a lot of paved roads and bridges, someone has to pay for it.

[Jamisjockey]

CA should have you beat next year when the second phase of our increase kicks in. I'm actually more surprised at PA than WA.

I was just in PA for a bike race and gas was 30 cents more than VA

[BobR]

https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/transportation/whats-your-gas-tax-stickers-coming-soon-to-the-pump/

Huh.  So Washington is number two in the nation for gasoline taxes.

What, you just learned that?!?!

Living close to Idaho I have known for a while our taxes in WA for gas were there, which is why I always fill up in ID when I go over.

bob

[MechAg94]

So why do the tax numbers all have 0.4 cents as a fraction?  Is based on a barrel tax or something?

[slingshot]

I was just in PA for a bike race and gas was 30 cents more than VA.

That has been true for a long time.  Same sort of thing between VA and MD.  One needs to look at how the money is spent, supposively on highways.  But I think a lot of it is treated as general revenue by the states.  Folks in TN near the GA border would buy in GA.  The difference was enough to justify the drive and do other shopping in GA versus TN.  That has changed as GA raised their state gas tax a couple years ago.  TN raised their's this year incrementally, I believe in two chunks.