Despite the cool off, gas prices remain well above the $4 threshold, and some politicians are looking for ways to offset this financial burden for Americans.
House Democrats Mike Thompson, John Larson, and Lauren Underwood introduced the Gas Rebate Act of 2022 last week that would give individuals making $75,000 or less a $100 check each month that gas prices exceed $4 per gallon.
California Governor Gavin Newsom has proposed sending payments of $400 per vehicle, capped at two, directly to state residents. It remains to be seen if either proposal will pass.
Stacker compiled statistics on gas prices in Olympia, WA metro area using data from AAA. Gas prices are as of March 24. State gas tax data is from World Population Review.
Olympia by the numbers- Current price: $4.80
--- Washington average: $4.73
--- Washington gas tax: $0.52 per gallon (#3 highest among all states)
- Week change: +$0.01 (+0.2%)
- Year change: +$1.41 (+41.6%)
- Historical expensive gas price: $4.81 (3/15/22)
bobkat
Are you certain about WA's gas tax??!! Just listened to the evening news on KOMO in which it was stated that WA's gas tax was $.68 per gallon!!!!
Friday, March 25, 2022 Report this
DanaMadsen
The Democrat politicians want to give away money to cover up the fact that aside from the Ukraine war by Russia the giant rise in gas prices mostly predates the war and is due primarily to the acts of none other than their leader, Joe Biden.
Saturday, March 26, 2022 Report this
Deskandchairs
Correct Dana, and another typical Democrat redistribution scheme, taking money from those who pay the gas tax and distributing funds based on income, regardless of gas consumption/gas taxes paid, while imposing a bureaucracy between receipt and disbur*****t, with its inherent administrative costs, and exposure to fraud (just like the Covid payments). If you just eliminated the gas tax, all of those deficiencies would not exist.
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