Saturday 4/23/05 Best Gas Prices in the Upper Keys

The best priced gas, in the Upper Keys, today was in

Key Largo: Tiny's at MM 100, regular gas posted at 2.169.

Tavernier: Circle K at MM 93, regular posted at 2.219.

Islamorada: Marlin and Tom Thumb at MM 89, regular posted at 2.199

Note: Conch reports Tiny's lowered their posted price to 2.119

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More Gas Price Information

From AAA

National Regular Unleaded Average

Current Avg. $2.218
Yesterday Avg. $2.218
Month Ago Avg. $2.095
Year Ago Avg. $1.808

Florida Regular Unleaded Average

Current Avg. $2.277
Yesterday Avg. $2.280
Month Ago Avg. $2.133
Year Ago Avg. $1.819

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Gas Taxes (from GasPriceWatch.com)

Federal Gas Tax 18.4 Cents per Gallon (cpg)
Florida Gas Tax 14.5 cpg
Florida Diesel Tax 27.2 cpg

The 14.5 cents represents 10.5 cpg sales tax plus 4 cpg excise tax. Gasoline tax rate increased .2 cpg on 1/1/05. Tax rate changes annually based on CPI. Does not include 2.2-cpg tax/fee for environmental inspection purposes (5 cents per barrel tax for the Water Quality Assurance Trust Fund, 80 cents per barrel for the Inland Protection Trust Fund, 2 cents per barrel for the Coastal Protection Trust Fund and 1/8 cents per gallon for weights and measures inspection fee).

Gasoline rate also does not include additional minimum 9.9 to 17.8 cent per gallon local option tax (see below) portion with the weighted average of 14.6 cents per gallon. Therefore, depending on where you live in Florida, your overall gasoline tax can vary from an average of 52.9 cents per gallon to 45 cents per gallon.

From Florida Department of Revenue

County Local Option Gas Taxes

Monroe County adds 11.8 cpg

Sampling of other Florida Counties Local Option Gas Taxes

Miami-Dade 15.8 cpg
Broward 17.8 cpg
Collier 17.8 cpg

Florida Keys Best Gas Prices Intro

There are several Websites with information on gas prices throughout the US. Unfortunately none, that I can find, have any information on the price of gas in the Florida Keys. I hope this Weblog can fill that gap.

If you would like to contribute, by advising of the lowest gas price in your area of the Florida Keys, you can leave a comment here and we can discuss how to contribute.

Happy Driving!