Don't forget that part of the price of gasoline at the pump is taxes. And we all know those rarely go down.
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The United States federal
excise tax on
gasoline is 18.4 cents per gallon and 24.4 cents per gallon for
diesel fuel.
[1][2] The federal tax was last raised in 1993 and is not indexed to
inflation, which increased by a total of 73 percent from 1993 until 2018. On average, as of April 2019, state and local taxes and fees add 34.24 cents to gasoline and 35.89 cents to diesel, for a total US volume-weighted average
fuel tax of 52.64 cents per gallon for gas and 60.29 cents per gallon for diesel.
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total US volume-weighted average
fuel tax of 52.64 cents per gallon for gas and 60.29 cents per gallon for diesel
I remember buying gas for under 30cents per gallon the federal gas tax was 1.5 cent per gallon.
1.5 cents - July
1940 through October 1951
Congress raised the
gas tax by half a cent in
1940, just before the United States entered World War II, to help boost national defense. It also made the
gas tax permanent in 1941.