An oil rig south of town extracts crude on July 21, 2008, in Taft, California. Hemmed in by the richest oil fields in California, the oil town of 6,700 with a stagnated economy and little room to expand has hatched an ambitious plan to annex vast expanses of land reaching eastward to Interstate 5, 18 miles away, and take over various poor unincorporated communities to triple its population to around 20,000. California's voters will get a chance to repeal the gas tax that is going to appear in the referendum ballot in 2024. DAVID MCNEW/BALLOTPEDIA
The California Secretary of State announced that a veto referendum seeking to repeal Senate Bill 1137 (SB 1137) had qualified for the 2024 ballot on Feb. 3.
Gas prices are listed at over 7 dollars per gallon in Los Angeles, California on June 22, 2022. – Joe Biden pitched a temporary fuel tax break June 22, 2022, to help American drivers face the highest inflation in four decades, but critics called it window dressing by an unpopular US president ahead of difficult midterm elections. California has the highest gas prices in the nation that is more than the average combined. FREDERIC J. BROWN/BALLOTPEDIA
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