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US COVID-19 mitigation efforts resulting in significant decline in traffic, emissions and fuel-tax revenues

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A new report from the Road Ecology Center at the University of California, Davis has found that total US vehicle miles traveled (VMT) at the county and state level have declined by 61% to 90% following the various government stay-at-home orders in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Fuel use dropped from 4.6 billion per week.

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EIA: State tax rates for retail gasoline and diesel increased in 13 states in 2023

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Data source: US Energy Information Administration, federal and state motor fuels taxes table. Note: Tax rates increased by $0.001/gal in Arkansas and by $0.0005/gal in Missouri. gal), although that low tax rate will gradually increase through May 2023. These states are not shown because the values are so small.

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API releases latest report on US and state fuel taxes

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Adding these taxes and fees to the state excise taxes results in a volume-weighted average state and local tax of 31.32 California has the highest gasoline taxes (state excise, other state tax, and federal excise) in the country, at 70.87 cpg) and Connecticut (67.70 cpg, followed by New York (67.97

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California ARB mods to ZEV regulations for IVMs would result in ~1.9% drop in total ZEV/TZEV units 2018-2025; no impact on air quality requirements

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Early in September, the California Air Resources Board (ARB) announced it would consider in a 23-24 October meeting amendments to the Zero Emission Vehicle (ZEV) regulation that would modify the requirements for intermediate volume manufacturers (IVMs) selling into the state to allow them more time to come into the market. Earlier post.).

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