What is the current gas tax per gallon?
Gas taxes vary by state and county, but the Federal Highway Motor Fuel tax is applied to every drop of gas sold in the U.S., and is currently at 18.4 cents per gallon. Annual consumption is approximately 132,649,310,000 gallons/year, putting revenues for the Highway Trust Fund (the primary source for highway and bridge building and maintenance) at more than $24.4 billion (as detailed below, there are other sources of this funding as well).
