Today, gasoline taxes are rising in a dozen U.S. states.The following infographic shows where gasoline taxes are going up today and it’s based on data from the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy . You will find more infographics at Statista California is among the states with increases and taxes in the Golden State are going up by 5.6 cents. That now equates to 47.3 cents per gallon, meaning California once again has the highest gasoline prices in the country. But, the increase is particularly notable in Illinois given, as Statista’s Niall McCarthy notes , that the state hasn’t altered its gas tax since 1990. It’s bumping its gas tax by 19 cents to 38 cents a gallon. As IllinoisPolicy.org’s Vincent Carudo and Joe Barnas detail below , Illinoisans will shoulder one of the nation’s heaviest tax burdens at the pump – and the DMV. On June 28, Gov. […]