Gas prices are up across the country, but if the Massachusetts House of Representatives got what it wanted in 2020, it would be even more expensive.
That's because most state representatives voted to raise the state's gas tax on March 4, 2020. The House voted 113-40 to pass An Act Relative To Transportation Finance (H.4530). If it became law, the bill would have raised the Commonwealth's gas tax by 5 cents per gallon (to 29 cents a gallon) and diesel tax by 9 cents per gallon (to 33 cents per gallon).
