PA Gas Tax High – Yet Roads are Still Lousy

By Bradley Vasoli

In 2025, Pennsylvania had the fourth-highest state gasoline tax in America. The commonwealth held the No. 3 spot the prior year but dipped below Washington State. That might feel, for a nanosecond, like incremental progress, but the drop owes only to Evergreen Staters’ gas tax rising 6.22 cents per gallon (cpg) to 59.04.

At 57.6 cpg (58.7 counting the underground storage tank fee and 78.5 counting the federal gas tax), Pennsylvania’s liquid fuels tax also stands only below Illinois’s (66.4 cpg) and California’s (70.92). Indiana rounds out the top five states at 54.5. Pennsylvania’s levy will rake an estimated $3.5 billion into the treasury in Fiscal Year 2025-26. What does the Keystone State have to show for taking so much at the pump?

Equally concerning marks on road and bridge quality.

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