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Hawaii Gas Tax

Note: CPG = Cents Per Gallon

Gas Tax Totals include the Federal Gas tax of 18.4 CPG for Gasoline and 24.4 CPG for Diesel.

Gas Tax ...................31.8 CPG
Total Gas Tax ...........50.2 CPG

Diesel Gas Tax ..........44.1 CPG
Total Diesel Tax ........68.5 CPG

Tax notes:

Includes 4% sales tax and additional county taxes and 0.12cpg environmental response tax.

Effective 4/2/06 state law requires 85% of gasoline sold in the state to contain 10% ethanol. Actual sales reflect 99% of gasoline sold in Hawaii contains 10% ethanol.

Ethanolblended gasoline is exempt from the state’s 4% excise tax on retail sales through 12/06 and is reflected in chart.

Source:
American Petrolium Institute

Related Links

Map of gas taxes by state

Map of Diesel Taxes by state

Gasoline Facts:

• The first gasoline pump was manufactured by Sylvanus Bowser of Fort Wayne, Indiana on September 5, 1885. The gas tank on this pump had valves made of marble and plungers made from wood.

• The first gasoline-powered tractor was invented on September 6, 1892, by John Froelich of Iowa. It had a vertical single-cylinder gasoline engine mounted on wooden beams and drove a J. I. Case threshing machine. Froelich formed the Waterloo Gasoline Tractor Engine Company, which was later acquired by the John Deere Plow Company.

• Up until the 1970's most gasolines contained lead. By the late 1980's most gasolines were unleaded.

• Talk about cheap gas, in the 1920's the cost of gas, with taxes, averaged .30 a gallon.

• From 1920 Through 1970 the average miles per gallon of gasoline for an automobile was about 13-15.

• Today the average miles per gallon for all vehicles, Cars and Trucks, is about 20.4.

• Hybrid vehicles are vehicles that use gas and some other material as fuel.

• Ethanol is “ethyl alcohol,” 200-proof grain alcohol, made from corn. Most gasolines are mixed as 90 percent gasoline and 10 percent Ethanol. Although there are some cars on the market now that will run on pure Ethanol.