In the right lane
"If out-of-state drivers paid gas tax, they would contribute $73 million to fix our roads"
— PolitiFact Wisconsin on Friday, June 28th, 2019
Estimates in that range
Says "President Obama’s proposed oil tax would cost consumers 24 cents a gallon."
— PolitiFact Wisconsin on Friday, August 26th, 2016
Fill 'er up
The "average taxpayer will see the equivalent of a 2 percent pay raise as a result of low fuel prices."
— PolitiFact Texas on Saturday, January 10th, 2015
Georgia ranks a distant third for region
Georgia has some of the highest gas taxes in the Southeast but one of the lowest taxes on gasoline for transportation in the nation.
— PolitiFact Georgia on Tuesday, November 18th, 2014
Chu wanted a gradual price hike
Obama's secretary of energy, Dr. Steven Chu, "has said publicly he wants us to pay European levels (for gasoline), and that would be $9 or $10 a gallon."
— PolitiFact National on Wednesday, March 14th, 2012
Presidents don't control gas prices
The cost of a gas tank fill-up has risen $30 since Barack Obama became president.
— PolitiFact Virginia on Monday, February 20th, 2012
Even ExxonMobil agrees
Oil companies are able to sell oil that costs no more to produce today than it did one year ago.
— PolitiFact Oregon on Saturday, June 4th, 2011
