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HERE ARE THE FACTS ABOUT TODAY'S HIGH GASOLINE TAXES • In Virginia, you pay $1.10 tax on 10 gallons of gasoline. • You pay 11( tax a gallon—44 In Federal taxes plus 7t in State taxes. • Gasoline is taxed at a rate 5 times os high as diamonds. • The average Virginia motor vehicle owner pays $97 a year in gasoline taxes. • Since 1951 there have been three increases in Ihe Federal gasoline tax alone. • In the last 10 years, gasoline taxes nationwide have skyrocketed 51%—yet the nationalaverage price of gasoline itself has risen only 5.5% during the same period.
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