Gas Tax on Pause in Georgia Amid War with Iran

There is nothing like a little war in the Middle East to make getting gas more painful than usual. In response to the sky-high prices at the pump, Georgia has decided to do away with their gas tax. 

The Daily Wire reports:

Georgia Governor Brian Kemp on Friday suspended the state’s gas tax amid rising fuel prices as the U.S.-Israeli war in Iran enters its third week.

The move – the first such relief offered by a U.S. state since the war started on February 28 – suspends Georgia’s tax of 33.3 cents per gallon on gas and 37.3 cents per gallon on diesel for 60 days.

The conflict has choked supplies from the Middle East – one of the world’s top oil-producing regions – so severely that U.S. President Donald Trump is considering military options to ensure safe passage of oil tankers through the Strait of Hormuz, a key oil shipping route near Iran.

The U.S. national average gas price on Friday was $3.912 a gallon, the highest since October 2022 and up 31% since the U.S.-Israeli war against Iran began.

That’s cool and all, but I have a better idea—HOW ABOUT NO GAS TAX TO BEGIN WITH?! I love how the government routinely takes our money and then expects credit for the times it decides not to steal it in the first place.

We pay taxes on the cars we drive, the roads we drive them on, and the fuel we put in them. But hey, at least Georgia isn’t curb stomping the consumer when they are already down. Now if only other red states (looking at you, Indiana) would take note.