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Today’s number: 1.3 cents
Monday, May 11, 2026 - Posted by Rich Miller * Illinois Policy Institute headline…
And then the narration never says what the hike actually is, although an included graph has an answer if you do the math yourself: 1.3 cents. Discuss.
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- very old soil - Monday, May 11, 26 @ 12:03 pm:
A mere pittance compared to the Trump tax.
- Oldtimer - Monday, May 11, 26 @ 12:08 pm:
Road and Construction Funds at an all time high combined balance of $7 billion and have been trending up even as IDOT spending has also increased.
- Benjamin - Monday, May 11, 26 @ 12:23 pm:
That’s outrageous. Why, over the course of a year, that will set me back…
*does some math*
…uh, $6.50.
Unacceptable.
- DerekLeeFan - Monday, May 11, 26 @ 12:32 pm:
I’m sorry — this is added to a doubling of the gas tax and a yearly hike since it was instituted. It’s egregious and it’s unacceptable for the governor to rightly hit trump on hiking the price at the pump when he’s contributing to it.
- Billy Bob - Monday, May 11, 26 @ 12:38 pm:
Typical of Rich to misdirect on the 48 cents per gallon the state is charging when the road fund is flush with cash.
- Rich Miller - Monday, May 11, 26 @ 12:39 pm:
===Typical of Rich to misdirect===
lol
The headline on the IPI story was the tax increase. I poked them for not then saying it was 1.3 cents.
Take a breath.
- Demoralized - Monday, May 11, 26 @ 12:41 pm:
This is why you cannot operate on the assumption that the IPI is in any way an honest organization.
- DuPage Saint - Monday, May 11, 26 @ 12:53 pm:
Well we are money ahead when we get that new property tax relief from the mega project
- Red headed step child - Monday, May 11, 26 @ 1:29 pm:
That’s outrageous. Why, over the course of a year, that will set me back…
*does some math*
…uh, $6.50.
Unacceptable.
You only pump 41 gallon a month? Or 10 a,week?
- Think again - Monday, May 11, 26 @ 1:30 pm:
=1.3 cents=
I took a very different approach on that 1.3 cents , I thought it was actually a very substantial increase. When you think about all of the gallons of gas, that each customer pumps each week, times the population of Illinois drivers - it is actually a huge amount. resident pumps, times.
- Rich Miller - Monday, May 11, 26 @ 1:31 pm:
===You only pump 41 gallon a month?===
Not everyone drives an Escalade.
- Cool Papa Bell - Monday, May 11, 26 @ 1:47 pm:
=combined balance of $7 billion=
Not knowing anything but given short term interest rates - our Road Fund should be spinning off a little investment money each year too.
- Jack in Chatham - Monday, May 11, 26 @ 1:53 pm:
Raising fuel prices every year is acceptable. However the excise user fee on Beer has not been increased since 1984.
- Stephanie Kollmann - Monday, May 11, 26 @ 2:07 pm:
Sure, it sounds small until you think of the farmers planting 400 acres
They’ll pay an extra $2.50
- Old IL Dude - Monday, May 11, 26 @ 2:18 pm:
We ever gonna get a tax break in this state? For anything?
- Demoralized - Monday, May 11, 26 @ 2:25 pm:
==the excise user fee on Beer==
You really have a thing for raising taxes on alcohol.
- Stephanie Kollmann - Monday, May 11, 26 @ 2:28 pm:
What service are you willing to give up?
- Benjamin - Monday, May 11, 26 @ 3:19 pm:
==You only pump 41 gallon a month? Or 10 a,week? ==
…yes? I drive 14000 miles a year–dead average for cars in the United States, according to the FHWA–in a car that gets approximately 28 mpg. Try the math yourself if you don’t believe me.
- green mountain boys - Monday, May 11, 26 @ 3:59 pm:
- Stephanie Kollmann - Monday, May 11, 26 @ 2:07 pm:
Sure, it sounds small until you think of the farmers planting 400 acres
They’ll pay an extra $2.50
actually farmers use non road diesel in their farm equipment which is a different color than regular road diesel and they do not pay the road tax
But you already knew that.
- Mason County - Monday, May 11, 26 @ 4:02 pm:
1.3 cents is, of course very little. But do not forget that only California has a higher gas tax and Illinois is tied with Maryland for the 2nd highest tax.
- Pundent - Monday, May 11, 26 @ 6:25 pm:
=But do not forget that only California has a higher gas tax and Illinois is tied with Maryland for the 2nd highest tax.=
There’s a cost to building and maintaining roads. Some states fund it through a gas tax others use different sources of revenue and fees. And some states have really bad roads. And if the IPI is advocating for substandard roads they are free to make that case.
- New Day - Monday, May 11, 26 @ 7:11 pm:
Of course they want you to ignore the 1.3 cents and think it’s actually a 50 cent increase. Just read several headlines which said precisely that. Give me a break. It’s a penny a gallon. Maybe we should focus on which party and which president is responsible for the increase not of a penny but of 153 pennies since this pointless war began.