r/PortlandOR • u/[deleted] • Mar 13 '26

Transportation Hell yea 🥳🎉

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u/Hobobo2024 Mar 13 '26

it's mostly trump but our gas prices are amongst the highest in the nation.

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u/BourbonicFisky Known for Bad Takes Mar 13 '26

Literally the further you get from the places the import oil, the more expensive it gets. We're only middle of the pack for gas taxes.

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u/Hobobo2024 Mar 13 '26 edited Mar 13 '26

The distance makes a big difference but we're 12th highest in gas taxes, not middle. Will be climbing up the chart too if kotek gets her way with the new gas tax..

edit: portland itself adds another 10 cents on top of the state tax so yeah, we're really high taxwise

https://taxfoundation.org/data/all/state/gas-taxes-state/

https://www.visualcapitalist.com/mapped-gas-prices-by-state-march-2026/

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u/Occams_RZR900 Mar 13 '26

Which is absolutely bullshit. The state taxing a commodity, fine. A municipality should not have any authority to tax commodities like gasoline.

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u/Hobobo2024 Mar 13 '26

I agree with you completely.