Gas Station Inflation Volume 2: Crazier Than California
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In 2022, Gov. Tim Walz proposed the adoption of California’s “Clean Fuel Standard.” This new regulation would act as a stealth gas tax, increasing the cost of gasoline and diesel for families and businesses but provide no money for roads and bridges.
Since that time, liberal lawmakers in St. Paul have introduced a new, more extreme version of this proposal, rebranded as a “Clean Transportation Standard,” or CTS, that will make Minnesota’s mandates the most extreme and most expensive in the country, surpassing California, Oregon, and Washington.