Georgia Gov. Sonny Perdue said he will sign an executive order Friday that will exempt consumers from state motor fuel taxes through the end of September to "relieve some of the financial burden" in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. The order will remove the 7.5-cents-a-gallon tax and a 4 percent sales tax on gas, the governor said, and was set to begin at midnight. This makes far more sense that any kind of price controls (aka "anti-gouging" laws). It will be interesting to see how many leftists are horrified by this. There is no crisis so severe to justify reducing or eliminating any tax.
On Monday, I filled up with 89 octane for $2.619. This afternoon, it was $2.989.