Olympia : we hate petroleum

Olympia : Petroleum companies we are coming for you

Big Oil: would it help if we donated to your campaigns?

Olympia: Well, it might help a little bit Big Oil: what if we gave you a lot of money and changed our name? Olympia: to what?

Big Oil: How about Beyond Petroleum?

Olympia : and lots of money to our friends?

Big Oil: deal!

Olympia : lets beat up on petroleum again but this time tax drivers

Drivers: wait what?

Olympia : yes you will stop driving petrol cars by 2030, or maybe 2040, or maybe 2050 ish

Olympia: And we are gonna have to tax you

Drivers: wait what?

Olympia : Did we mention we are gonna have tax you even more

Drivers: wait what?

Olympia: Oil is going to kill the world – lets raise more taxes

*****Suddenly**** Leak in the Beyond Petroleum petroleum pipeline Shuts down air traffic and threatens economy ******

Bob Ferguson: I am single handedly saving WA state by getting the petroleum pipeline fixed so we can keep using petroleum!

🚨Olympic Pipeline partially restored, source of leak located

Integrated oil and gas company British Petroleum (BP) has located the source of a leak in its Olympic Pipeline, 15 days after the leak was first discovered, and restored service to one, of two lines, that send jet… pic.twitter.com/gRGGQwtNTD

— Lynnwood Times (@LynnwoodTimes) November 26, 2025

So, now that you have total whiplash from all the back and forth, readers, suffice it to say that Washington State has the second-highest gas taxes in America, and the tax is set to increase 2% a year in perpetuity-no end date.

If you were considering moving to Washington State, I’d reconsider. All of the above, plus high housing costs, gray weather half the year, higher sales taxes every year, death tax, long-term-care tax on wage earners, gross-receipts tax on business in lieu of income tax, capital-gains tax on high earners…….. You get the idea.