Gas stations in Washington are resetting their price boards to accommodate double digits in preparation for fuel prices potentially reaching $10 a gallon. The move comes as several gas stations in the state have already run out of fuel. However, Governor Jay Inslee remains firm on not lifting the gas tax he proposed, which would levy a six-cents-per-gallon tax on fuel refined in Washington and imported to states with lower state gas taxes than Washington. “If we simply eliminate the gas tax, here’s what will happen,” Inslee said in a press conference. “The oil companies will just increase their prices to the same pain point. And what would happen is that those 16 cents or whatever you did, instead of going to the coffers where we can build roads, it would just go to the oil companies and their profits.” As proposed, the tax paid by out-of-state consumers would […]