Yes.

The federal excise tax for gasoline has been unchanged at 18.4 cents per gallon since 1993.

The Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1993 increased the federal gas tax by 4.3 cents, according to the Federal Highway Administration, and it hasn’t increased since then.

The federal gas tax began in 1932, when Congress imposed a 1-cent-per-gallon excise tax on gasoline sales as a Depression-era revenue measure signed by President Herbert Hoover.

Maine’s own state excise tax on gasoline has remained unchanged at 30 cents per gallon since 2012, according to Maine Revenue Services. 

Maine’s first gas tax — also originally 1 cent per gallon — took effect in 1923. It increased to 3 cents in 1925 and had reached 22 cents by 1999. Lawmakers added indexing based on inflation in 2003, but that was later repealed in 2012.

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Sources

• Federal Highway Administration: Historical federal fuel tax rates
• Federal Highway Administration: Ask the Rambler: When did the Federal Government begin collecting the gas tax?
• Maine Revised Statutes: Motor Fuel Taxes
• State of Maine: Compendium of State Fiscal Information, August 2000 (Pg. 42)
• State of Maine: Compendium of State Fiscal Information, September 2024 (Pg. 53)
• Maine Revenue Services: Fuel Tax Rates