Sentences with phrase «taxes per gallon of gas»

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Using the nationwide average fuel economy, we calculated the average gallons of gas used per capita in each city and multiplied that by the fuel tax.

That means the total tax on gasoline and ethanol is 27.9 cents per gallon, slightly below the national average gas tax of 29.9 cents per gallon.

Florida was one of seven states to raise gas tax prices in 2017 — overall, Florida's gas tax is also one of the highest in the country at 34.77 cents per gallon, priced to restore and maintain the state's aging infrastructure.

In addition, Oregon has one of the higher gas taxes in the nation at 34 cents per gallon.

Maine also has a gas tax of around 31 cents per gallon.

The state also has one of the higher state gas taxes in the nation at over 37 cents per gallon, which also affects prices for New Jersey drivers.

Add that to the federal gas tax of 18.4 cents, and you're paying a total of 52.4 cents per gallon in taxes at the pump.

Although other states implement a fixed - rate per - gallon no matter how much gas costs, Kentucky's tax changes with the actual cost of gas.

The state currently charges a little over 39 cents in total taxes and fees for every gallon of gas — quite a difference from the 52 cents it collected per gallon a decade ago.

Using the nationwide average fuel economy, we calculated the average gallons of gas used per driver in each county and multiplied that by the fuel tax.

In short, it's a tax credit worth $ 0.50 per gasoline gallon equivalent of compressed natural gas, or diesel gallon equivalent of liquefied natural gas, and Clean Energy has been able to claim this tax credit for a portion of its fuel sales each year.

This credit exceeds the current gas and diesel excise tax of $ 0.184 and $ 0.244, respectively, per gallon.

(There's some silly chatter about the «$ 4 toast» — which is actually $ 3.50 — which is kind of surprising when people are filling up their cars with gas that costs more than $ 4 per gallon, and a glass of wine goes for $ 12, plus tax and tip.

He added that the majority of the state's transportation dollars comes from the federal budget and from the gas tax which is 18.4 cent per gallon.

Projections made at a time when gasoline was selling for roughly $ 4 per gallon had estimated that removing the tax cap could bring in $ 3 million in 2009 if a gallon of gas averaged $ 3.50 next year.

Among Freeman's specific recommendations are a «20 percent federal tax credit to electricity and natural gas utilities that gives highest priority to the efficient use of the energy they supply,» and ban on new coal or nuclear plants and retirement of the existing plants within the next 30 years, government - funded demonstration plants for Big Solar and hydrogen, increasing federal fuel economy standards one mile - per - gallon a year over the next 24 years, tax credits for plug - in hybrids or flex - fuel vehicles, and an excess - profits tax on oil to fund the tax credits.

The federal gas tax of 18.4 cents per gallon hasn't increased since 1993 — largely because even suggesting such a thing, most lawmakers believe, is political suicide.

Increasing the gas tax by, say, just 20 cents per gallon, potentially generating billions in road - repairing funds, would raise the average cost of a tank of fuel by only about $ 3.

That's including a $ 2,100 «gas guzzler» tax for the EPA rating of 14 miles per gallon city, 20 highway.

For 2015, the hand - built American exotic now delivers an increased 645 horsepower, gets up to 20 miles per gallon and is offered at a new starting U.S. Manufacturer's Suggested Retail Price (MSRP) of $ 84,995 (all prices exclude tax, title, license, destination and gas guzzler tax).

The S6 burns fuel like a truck, though; the EPA says it does no better than 21 miles per gallon on the highway, and you will pay a $ 2,100 gas guzzler tax to own one of these.

But any car that gets 12 miles per gallon in the city, on premium gasoline, and requires buyers to plunk down a $ 3,000 «gas - guzzler» tax, is probably not being cross-shopped with any of the sensible - shoes alternatives.

EPA ratings of 13 miles per gallon in the city and 17 mpg on the highway, saddling the XJ - S with a $ 1,500 gas - guzzler tax, are par for the European luxury - car course but distinctly unappealing.

(I'm thinking of supply side economics and the obvious need for a larger rather than smaller gas tax to help us get moving away from it; in England in April it was about $ 9 per gallon, though I'm sure it's more than that now.)

Right now, the average cost of gasoline is $ 3.58 per gallon.Even if she managed to prevent the renewal of our relatively tiny national gas tax (it expires this year, and some Tea Partiers are zeroing in on it), she'd only manage to shave off something like 38 cents of the cost per gallon.

Phasing in a gasoline tax of 40 cents per gallon per year for the next 12 years, for a total rise of $ 4.80 a gallon, and offsetting it with a reduction in income taxes would raise the U.S. gas tax to the $ 4 — 5 per gallon prevailing today in Europe and Japan.

The average U.S. gas tax of 47 cents per gallon, scarcely one tenth that in Europe, helps explain why more gasoline is used in the United States than in the next 20 countries combined.

Therefore, if taxes were eliminated, the cost of gas at the pump would be about $ 1.50 per gallon (as of May 2006), instead of the $ 3.00 we now see.

As a group, their estimates of appropriate carbon taxes, mostly starting 2010 - 2015, mostly are in the $ 10 - $ 20 range per ton CO2, i.e., $.10 - $.20 / gallon gas.

Mr. Mankiw, a Harvard Economics professor and former chairman of the Council on Economic Advisors, «would like to see Congress increase the gas tax by $ 1 per gallon, phased in gradually by 10 cents per year over the next decade.»

Although the federal gas tax — 18.4 cents per gallon — hasn't changed since 1993, tax collections are down because today's vehicles go farther on a gallon of gas, cutting tax collections while increasing wear and tear on highways.