Kari Lake, the GOP candidate for Arizona governor, said her Democratic opponent Katie Hobbs voted to double gasoline taxes. Hobbs co-sponsored a 2018 bill to do that, but it never came to a vote.
and has not changed since. In addition, larger vehicles — which include tractors and trucks weighing over 26,000 pounds or having more than two axles — pay a 26 cent per gallon tax.
Hobbs was a member of the Arizona Senate from 2013 to 2019 and in 2018, co-sponsored Senate Bill 1336, which would have raised the gas tax to 36 cents to help maintain the state’s highways., co-sponsorship"is generally understood to signify a Senator’s support" for a bill.for unleaded regular gas in the Phoenix-Mesa-Scottsdale area was around $2.82. This past September, the price was around $4.18. Down from a peak of $5.55 in June, but still nearly 50% higher than four years earlier.
Rising energy costs, including gasoline prices, have pushed inflation higher. When energy costs more, everything costs more. This September, the combination of rising energy and housing costs contributed to the Phoenix area havingto add a licensing fee to alternative fuel vehicles, hoping to get those vehicles to help fund road repairs. That bill also failed to be put to a vote.
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