When looking at an average 15 gallon tank and a $3.00 average per gallon of gas, the added cost of a fill up is about $2.00. According to CBS 13, if you fill up twice a week you’ll end up paying around $200 more a year.
Another way to think about it—the added cost offsets two and a half AVERAGE shopping trips at Wal-Mart.
There is a $.12 addition per gallon, but that’s not the only tax you pay. There’s also the two cents per gallon storage fee, a local sales tax $0.09 per gallon, a levy collected by only 5 other states, and the current federal tax of $0.18, and the total gas tax comes to $0.72 cents. That makes California the state with the second highest tax on gas, coming in $.05 behind Pennsylvania.
Over the next 10 years, the additional tax is expected to bring in $52 billion which is supposed to be used for road repairs.
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