[robertcope]

27 cents a gallon is quite a lot.

[astrodust]

No it isn't. US gas prices are comically low compared to virtually every other country on the planet. The exceptions are countries with stupidly low gas prices like Venezuela and Saudi Arabia. If this tax was applied it wouldn't push America into European levels of pricing. It wouldn't even nudge it into Canadian pricing levels.

[pjc50]

Hasn't US petrol prices seesawed from $4 to $2 fairly recently?

Of course, over here in the UK it's £1.10/liter, which is about $6.

[pkulak]

Gas prices vary by that amount just from state to state.

[lmkg]

And that variance is also considered "a lot."

[VLM]

And that will just be the start.

[hyperbovine]

Compared to inundating Manhattan? Perspective.