Column: Forced speech meets free speech in state gas-tax standoff – Champaign News-Gazette

Jim Dey: "Gasoline and politics are a combustible combination, particularly during an election year when prices hover around $4.40 to $5 a gallon. To ingratiate themselves with voters, Pritzker and legislators postponed a scheduled gas-tax increase of 2-plus cents a gallon from July 1 to Jan. 1, 2023."
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Freddy
1 year ago

$3.79 in many stations up in Beloit.

Aaron
1 year ago
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Oklahoma right now

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