California’s taxes on gasoline, already among the nation’s highest, increased by another 1.7 cents per gallon last week. Republicans blamed Gov. Gavin Newsom for increasing the state’s sky-high living costs.
“Gavin Newsom just made living in California even more expensive by raising California’s gas tax once again while refusing California Republicans’ calls to suspend it,” Jessica Millan Patterson, state GOP chairwoman, said in a statement. “Californians continue to pay the highest gas...