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93.64. Not even 20 gallons of gas pumped. The total for David Casillas, more than $103. I don't know if it's the right time for more taxes. But that's exactly what lawmakers decided, passing a bill to add $0.06 to the $0.49.4 per gallon we already pay. That will ring up a total of $0.55.4 a gallon. How can people afford this? It's getting harder. It really is. Working longer and harder. It's the only way to do it. The tax on diesel fuel would also grow $0.06 over the next two years. And both taxes would rise 2% annually from there. What do you say to working families who are looking at it saying, if you sign this, I won't be able to afford it? Yeah, I think what I'm going to try and do is avoid signing a budget that leaps that outcome. The current budget, passed to the governor's desk, creates $9 billion in revenue from taxes and cuts $7 billion in spending. We're facing a $16 billion shortfall. That's a lot. As I said at the beginning, we can't cut our way out of it, but we can't tax our way out of it. It's got to be some balanced approach. Governor Bob Ferguson tells me he is hearing from consumers and businesses and that he will be studying each of the more than 1,000 pages of this new budget line by line. I think what families want to see is a thoughtful approach.