Drivers in some places are crossing state lines to get even an ounce of relief.
"I only put seven dollars in, man. Know what I'm saying? You gotta get what you can get," driver Shawn Lomax said. "It's only a 10-minute drive to save 50 cents, sometimes 75 cents a gallon, so it's worth my while," said Mike Phillip, a driver in Wisconsin. Democratic and Republican lawmakers alike are now pushing legislation to temporarily suspend their state gas taxes.
Republican lawmakers in Pennsylvania have proposed a suspension of their gas tax, which is currently the highest in the nation . Several governors are also calling for the federal government to suspend its gas tax through the end of the year. "There is no guarantee that the oil companies pass that reduction on to the consumer. And it's very hard to write a bill that requires them to pass it on to the consumer," she said."You think that it's at the pump, it's the consumer paying it, comes off, but that's not the way it works.""The reality is that you have to watch it," Maryland Sen. Cory McCray said.
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