"Gasoline and jet fuel deliveries rose but the increases were offset by declines in distillate fuel and residual fuel oil. The year-to-year demand increase for gasoline of 1.7 percent came despite retail gasoline selling at the highest nominal February prices ever."

http://www.api.org/Newsroom/fuel-demand-mar08.cfm

"To be conservative, let’s say 2,000,000,0001 gallons of gasoline are consumed in Washington State each year. This means that for each penny per gallon the gas tax increases an additional $20,000,000 (2,000,000,000 gallons * $0.01) in state revenue is generated."

http://www.johnwulff.com/
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http://www.api.org/Newsroom/fuel-demand-mar08.cfm

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