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EPISODE · Jul 30, 2026 · 15 MIN

Ferguson Hikes WA Gas Tax To 56.5¢ Families Hit With $6 Gallon Prices

from News For Reasonable People · host Sean Reynolds

Washington State's gas tax is jumping to 56.5 cents per gallon on July 1st — one of the highest in the nation and climbing every single year. While most of America fills up somewhere in the mid-$3 range, Bellevue drivers are staring down prices near $6 a gallon. Oklahoma is paying $2. That gap doesn't happen by accident. That's what you get when you keep electing people like Bob Ferguson to run your state.Governor Ferguson and the Olympia Democrats keep selling these hikes as infrastructure investment, but the pattern writes itself — every year the gas tax goes up, every year the roads are somehow still in desperate need of repair, and every year Senator Marco Liias has a fresh justification ready. Motor Vehicle Fund. Road work. Construction projects. Call it whatever you want. Working families and daily commuters filling up every week know exactly what it is: a tax grab dressed in a hard hat.What makes this especially brutal is how it punishes the people least equipped to absorb it. Gas taxes are among the most regressive in the entire tax code — they don't care how much you earn. The family driving a beat-up Honda to a warehouse job pays the same per gallon as the Eastside tech worker. And this isn't a Washington problem in isolation — California just hiked their gas tax to the highest rate in the country. This is the Blue State Playbook: tax, spend, call it investment, and leave citizens wondering where the money actually went.Subscribe to @reasonablenews for daily coverage of what Pacific Northwest politicians hope you'll stop thinking about. Hit the notification bell so you never miss an episode.#WashingtonState #GasPrices #TaxesGO PREMIUM WITH REASONABLE+ FOR UNCENSORED ACCESS 🌟https://ReasonableTV.com/🛍️ MERCH - https://Store.ReasonableTV.com/💬 JOIN our FREE Discord Community! Share stories, chat with fellow enthusiasts, and stay in the loop: https://discord.com/invite/uJGWFpgDcY👍🏼 SMASH that LIKE button & SUBSCRIBE for daily videos that dive into the latest news! https://youtube.com/c/NewsForReasonablePeopleSTAY CONNECTED:🔗 Rumble - https://Rumble.com/c/NewsForReasonablePeople🔗 Facebook - https://www.Facebook.com/NewsForReasonablePeople🔗 iTunes - https://Apple.co/2MkFziJ🔗 Spotify - https://Spoti.fi/2Dh8EoL

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