Speaking of high gas prices, Democrats are promising to bring the price down if they take over Congress. Well why can’t they do that in their own states?

Take California, where gas now costs more than $6 a gallon. These are California’s official (probably lowball) estimates of their policy-imposed costs per gallon of gasoline that total $1.42:

Here are the 10 states with the highest state gasoline taxes:

Note that eight of the 10 are blue or purple states.

And so are eight of the 10 states with the highest state diesel taxes: