Illinois Gas Prices And Taxes

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Truth In Politics: Illinois Gas Prices And Taxes
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Mike Flannery CHICAGO (CBS) ― Tired of seeing the price at the pump jump every time you need to buy gasoline? Well, the record-high price of gasoline in the Chicago area is linked to a record-high rate of taxation: nearly 20 percent of the Chicago price.

As CBS 2 Political Editor Mike Flannery reports, tax refugees wait in long lines on Indianapolis Boulevard in Northwest Indiana. They jockey for position at a pump, lured by prices that are 20 cents a gallon or more cheaper than just a few blocks away back in Illinois.

"It was $4.20. I can come over here and get it for $3.93," said Tikvah Wadley, one of the many fleeing Illinois taxes.

Illinois Sen. Dick Durbin complained to oil company bosses at a hearing on Capitol Hill about Chicago having the highest gasoline prices in the United States. Largely ignored was the role taxes are playing -- an astounding 10 levels of taxation.

northern illinois has to rebuild our roads every 10-15 years .....every year in chicagoland there is major road construction...

in wis we build NEW highways and bypasses around towns and leave the rest of our infrastructure to crumble.

Indiana? That would only be profitable if one was going there for other reasons or lived very close to the border. For my 10-gallon tank car, the savings for a full tank (if I don't have a drop left) would be $2.70. Since my car gets about 36-38 mpg driving on the highway (and about 24mpg in the city) I wouldn't want to drive too far just to save $2.70 on a whole tank of gas.

I can often save 20-30 cents per gallon. However, I don't use 2.5 gallons just to drive down there for gas. If I go down there for other things, I fill the tank before coming home.

Everyone always wants to pretend that the commons are free for some reason. I guess we really will need Hummers if there is no money to repair roads.

In addition, US Senators do not legislate on the state level.

that i'm amazed haven't been patched or fixed.