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Show I Gasoline taxes in this country yielded a net revenue of $187,603,231 in 1926, according to data collected from the various states by the Bureau of Public Roads of the United States department of Agriculture. A tax was imposed in all but four States at : rates ranging from 1 to 5 cents per i gallon, the average rate .being 2.34 cents. The tax collections indicate that nearly eight billion gallons were ! consumed in the States imposing the i tax and it is estimated that nearly two billion gallons were used in the four states in which no tax was imposed. |