Unfortunately it's true: gas prices are going up thanks to costly taxes in the form of a carbon tax and cap and trade. The new taxes on carbon emissions alone are projected to add about 46 cents per gallon more next year, and by 2030 it's set to increase all the way up to 80 cents more per gallon.

Find out how we got here and where those numbers came from in this helpful aggregation of research done by our staff.

Analysis on cost

• State's new tax on CO2 emissions projected to add 46 cents per gallon to the cost of gas
• How much will Washington’s new CO2 tax increase gas prices? Let’s bet!
• What did Gov. Inslee say when confronted with WPC research on the new emissions tax showing a $.46 cent per gallon increase in the 2023 price of gas?
• Tone-deaf politics, taxes and regulation are driving WA’s high gas prices even higher
• Tricks and errors in Ecology report skew cost estimates of new CO2 law
• Fact check: State transportation budget raises taxes on gasoline

Analysis on effect

• Free money everywhere: the pretense on which Washington state’s energy policy is based
• Green colonialism: Legislative proposal to tax energy infrastructure would hit developing countries hardest
• State analysis shows switching to EVs is expensive, even with very high gas prices
• FACT CHECK: State environmental reports on CO2 and Snake River dams contradicted by their own sources
• Apollo’s Misfire: Governor Inslee’s miserable record of predicting the future of climate and energy