In Washington state, Inslee's final months aimed at staving off repeal of landmark climate law | Voters in WA will decide this fall whether to keep one of the country's more aggressive climate laws

silence7@slrpnk.net · 2 months ago

In Washington state, Inslee's final months aimed at staving off repeal of landmark climate law | Voters in WA will decide this fall whether to keep one of the country's more aggressive climate laws

SeaJ@lemm.ee · 2 months ago

Gas prices definitely increased and the state definitely should not have said there would be a negligible effect. However, gas price increases are not necessarily a bad thing since we want to move away from it. What would have helped is giving a tax rebate for poor people in rural areas and also maybe getting rid of the EV tab fee. We have started an instant EV rebate for families making under $94k which can help some families afford a used Bolt but the added tax is still a shitty additional expense for poor rural people. A straight tax refund would eliminate the income effect of the additional cost.

silence7@slrpnk.net · 2 months ago

I look at a graph of gasoline prices for WA state, and a national one:

and it looks like somewhere around a $0.10/gallon higher premium on WA state gasoline as compared with the country as a whole. That’s a pretty negligible effect.