Don't like those gasoline taxes? Blame it on Oceanside!

Don't like those gasoline taxes?
Blame it on Oceanside!

I've often heard it said that what starts in California does not stay in California. Instead, good or bad, it spreads throughout the nation.

Way back in the early 1900s, when roads throughout the nation were somewhat primitive and even dangerous, a committee of residents in Oceanside, California, just 30 miles miles north of San Diego, proposed a half-cent-per-gallon gasoline tax. The revenue would go toward building, improving, and maintaining roads.

The San Diego County Board of Supervisors liked the idea and took it to the state legislature in Sacramento, proposing it as a statewide measure. And here we are today, with Californians paying 63.9¢ per gallon in federal, state, and local gasoline taxes.

In other states, gasoline taxes range from 26.4¢ per gallon in Alaska to 62.5¢ per gallon in Connecticut. In other words, Californians pay the highest gasoline taxes in the nation.

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