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Bluestrike2 on March 14, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: Elon Musk: To the People of New Jersey

Those low prices are largely because NJ has some of the lowest gas taxes in the country (48th) whereas NY has the highest.

mpyne on March 15, 2014 [–]

Additionally many U.S. oil refineries are right in NJ so they don't have to pay anywhere near the logistical costs that other states have to.

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