New year, same Jersey.
New York Post (12/31/25) reports: "New Jersey drivers are about to get hit with a nearly 9% hike in the state’s gas tax — leaving them once again grappling with one of the highest rates in the country. Thanks to legislation signed into law in 2024, the state — the only one in the nation to not allow self-service pumps — is raising its gas tax by 4.2 cents to 49.1 cents for gasoline and 56.1 cents for diesel Jan. 1. The jump would average out to about $27 more per year per driver, for a total cost of $320 just for the state gas tax alone, according to the latest figures available, 2022. 'People in New Jersey are paying some of the highest gas tax rates in the country,' Alex Stevens, manager of policy and communications at the Institute for Energy Research, told The Post. 'If the state were to reduce it to the national average, which is around 33 cents, people in the state would be paying well below the national average today for gasoline'...'Even with the high gas tax, you know, the gas prices in the state are mostly a consequence of just sort of the existing infrastructure that people have in New Jersey there,' Stevens said...'Since the state’s gas tax is so high, it looks like the problem really in the state isn’t so much the money coming in,' Stevens said. 'They’re collecting tons of revenue from the high gas tax, but it’s how the money is being spent going out where New Jersey ranks so poorly.'"
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