As is often the case these days, most branches of the Massachusetts government are looking for more revenue for their budgets. This is certainly the case for the Massachusetts Turnpike Authority, which has recently proposed almost doubling most of the tolls along the Mass Turnpike inside of the 128 belt. This plan has been met with some hostility, as would be expected, and one alternative plan proposed was to increase Massachusetts’ gas tax from its current ~23 cents per gallon to 30 cents per gallon. This would spread out the tax to more people in the state, rather than to the smaller percentage of people that use the Pike. 30 cents per gallon tends to be the average tax imposed my most states, so its actually quite curious that Massachusetts has kept its tax so low for so long.