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11-27-2013, 08:24 AM
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This site has a chart showing the taxes per state on a gallon of gas and diesel as well as the federal taxes on gasoline. Federal is about 18 cents per gallon. The average for state taxes is little more than 30 cents per gallon. Some states approach 70 cents per gallon of gasoline.
National and State Gas Taxes (Fuel Taxes) in the United States - GasPriceWatch.com |
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11-27-2013, 09:12 AM
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Originally Posted by victimofGM
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Let's hope that low sulphur diesel will be treated same as gasoline for taxes.
This move would allow for more clean technology diesel vehicles (ala VW, BMW, Benz engines) on our roads and be a huge step in decreased pollution & oil consumption.
I'm not a fun of our new trend in electric vehicles since it is heavily supported by our taxes and all we do is move pollution from the road to power producing plants... |
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11-27-2013, 10:45 AM
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The hybrid and/or electric vehicles are not really doing any good in America because of the way we govern them.....
And besides the Oil companies would NEVER give away their lucrative business...
And no matter what the station owners say they make money...
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11-27-2013, 10:58 AM
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Location: East of Seattle since 1992, originally from SF Bay Area
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That's good news to see that we are 8th, I thought we were the highest. Of course, they are talking about another 10 cent hike which would move us up to #3. Here the hybrids and electrics are charged an extra $100/year on their registration to cover the lower tax contribution since they still use the roads.
People doing their own bio-diesel conversions still have to pay no tax, but there is no more free used cooking oil, restaurants now have contracts to sell it.
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11-27-2013, 11:10 AM
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I wouldn't mind the taxes if they were used responsibly but the road construction/maintenance is rife with corruption and inefficiency from the top down. You have lazy civil service employees getting paid to do nothing but sit around getting high in the trucks on the side of the road, you have politicians awarding sweet contract jobs to the contractors that bribe them and then run up the tab, and then those same politicians demanding more taxes be paid for better roads without any independent outside oversight. One time our local city hired an outside contractor to remake a few miles of a local state highway. They were very fast, efficient, and did very good work. The city never called them back and instead went back to civil service employees.
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11-27-2013, 11:15 AM
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Location: NJ
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This is the only tax NJ is actually low on. They still manage to waste the money though.
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