the staff of the Ridgewood blog
Ridgewood NJ, New Jersey’s gas tax went up yet again ,this time by 4.3 cents per gallon. Gas tax revenue in NJ was down 23% last month and in 10 of the last 11 months. Some NJ gas stations are reporting their business is down by 25% Who is winning while New Jersey is losing? According to AAA Mid-Atlantic – we should look to our neighbors in Pennsylvania & Delaware.
According to a report issued by the American Automobile Association – Mid Atlantic (AAA) we should look to our neighbors in Delaware and Pennsylvania.
According to data from the Oil Price Information Service (OPIS) and AAA, the percentage of taxable gasoline sold in New Jersey (out of all taxable gas sold in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Delaware) dropped from an average of 43.68% to 41.98%, about 17.7 million gallons less per month in 2017 than in 2016.
Meanwhile, the amount of taxable gas sold in Pennsylvania and Delaware both rose in 2017, an average of 7.48 million gallons a month in Pennsylvania more than the average amount of gas purchased in 2016 and more than 208,000 gallons a month in Delaware.
There is no longer an advantage for out of state motorists to gas up here but more importantly the truckers that routinely used to take on hundreds of gallons at a fill up.
Higher taxes means higher prices which removes any incentive to purchase fuel unless you are a motorist who must.
You can’t talk logic with the morons in Trenton.
Higher taxes caused rich residents to leave, or at least spend 181 days out of state to avoid inheritance taxes. (Changing the law after they left won’t make them come back)
I’m waiting for Trenton to figure out how to tax me every time I take a dump.
Florio tried
Ok so New Jersey raises tax on gas. Nothing new in that. The Gov is an absolute despot. The gas tax is for road repairs. You can see how well that works in New Jersey.
On another thought, what happens with EV’s? The tax on fuel by the gallon pays for road repairs. EV’s don’t use gas. Who/how are they going to gouge to pay for road repairs? Guess it will be some innocent that uses public transport