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Federal Gas Tax: Household Expenditures from 1965 to 1995

Federal Gas Tax: Household Expenditures from 1965 to 1995

August, 1997 - BTS/97-TS/2

The U.S. Congress passed the first federal tax on gasoline in 1932. States had been collecting taxes on gasoline since 1919, but Congress did not implement a federal gasoline tax until it identified a...

Figure 1 Value-Added by Selected Industry Sectors:1992

Figure 1 Value-Added by Selected Industry Sectors:1992

($billions)

Truck shipments for Alaska and Hawaii are each about half the size of South Dakotas.

NOTE: The size of each circle represents shipments by truck from manufacturing,...