Thanks to New Climate Change Program, Washington Now Has the Most Expensive Gas in the Country

Oil industry officials and analysts are telling outraged drivers in Washington, ‘We warned you.’

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Seattle's Space Needle is seen in view of still standing but now defunct stacks of the Nucor Steel plant. AP/Elaine Thompson, file

Washington state has unseated California as the state with the most expensive gasoline in the country, and analysts have a simple explanation for the dubious distinction — a new carbon cap-and-trade program instituted by the state in an effort to combat climate change.

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