By Ryan Randazzo| The Republic
The price Arizonans pay for fuel would increase by 18 cents a gallon by 2023 under a proposal to raise the gas tax that won preliminary approval at the Legislature this week.
The proposal also would increase taxes for registering electric, hybrid and alternative-fueled vehicles, all in the name of better funding road repair and maintenance.
Arizona gas taxes are 18 cents a gallon today and would increase 6 cents a year for the next three years, to 24 cents, 30 cents and 36 cents under the proposal from Rep. Noel Campbell, R-Prescott.
The full 18-cent-per-gallon gas-tax increase would add about $2.88 to a 16-gallon fill-up in the third year. Someone driving a Toyota Camry 10,000 miles a year in the city would pay about $62 more a year in gas taxes in the third year of the increase, based on the fuel economy of that vehicle.
Arizona gas taxes were last increased in 1991.
