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> Gasoline in California is still about 1/2 the price in Europe. And already the highest priced in the US

• el_benhameen 8y ago
  This is frequently asserted, but it is untrue. Close, but still not true. https://gasprices.aaa.com/state-gas-price-averages/ https://gasprices.aaa.com/state-gas-price-averages/
  • simmers 8y ago
    Really? You're going to call them wrong because of Hawaii?
    • seppin 8y ago
      technically one of the pacific islands the US used for nuclear testing has the absolute highest.
• bsder 8y ago
  And? The problem here is that we implicitly (and sometimes not so implicitly) subsidize the infrastructure for cars and the moment you try to start making that subsidy explicit everybody loses their minds. The primary issue, as people have pointed out, is that gasoline taxes tend to have a regressive effect and hit the poorest the worst. To make matters even more complicated, the poorest also tend to have the oldest cars that pollute the worst--so letting them completely off the hook isn't really a valid solution, either.