Category: Road Warrior

August 23, 2025   Dear NJGCA Member, The Board of Directors of the New Jersey Gasoline, Convenience, Automotive Association has nominated the following members for election to the Board of Directors at the meeting to be held on September 24th at 12pm.  3-Year Term   Craig Copeland Kashmir Gill Danny Jallo Amit Pujara Muhammad Sarfaraz  …

August 21, 2025 EV Fast Chargers Grants Announced This week the NJ DEP announced the availability of funding for businesses looking to install battery electric vehicle fast chargers. This offering is a result of new funds in the State budget and is part of the “It Pay$ to Plug In” program.  The State will pay…

August 14, 2025 Trade Tariffs: Part-Sourcing and Profitability Earlier this week, NJGCA participated in a webinar exploring how the ongoing tariff uncertainty may impact the automotive landscape in unforeseen ways. The webinar was hosted by the Auto Care Association, a national group representing varying facets of the overall auto care industry.  Most of the presentation…

August 7, 2025 Motor Fuel Trends As part of the data trends we track at NJGCA, we recently received updated statistics from the State about motor fuel sales in 2024. 2024 saw another year-over-year increase in the total number of both gasoline and diesel gallons sold in the State, to about 3.71 billion gallons of…

July 31, 2025 Floor stocks tax TOMORROW on Cigarettes and Vapes Friday August 1st means an increase in the excise taxes on cigarettes and vaping fluid because of the state budget signed into law by Gov. Murphy on June 30th. While the higher tax will be passed on by distributors after August 1st, there is…

July 17, 2025 DEP Info A few weeks ago, we followed up on our Spring Member Conference by offering a few DEP-related notes to members that did not attend the conference. Since then, we’ve answered a few random questions, and even sent out a notice last week that was passed along to us regarding many…

July 10, 2025 “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” Officially signed into law On July 4th last week, President Trump signed into law what may be the biggest law he will sign in his entire second term, the “One Big Beautiful Bill” (OBBB). There’s been a lot of back and forth in the crafting of this…

June 19, 2025 Notes from DEP The NJGCA Spring Conference was two weeks ago, and we’re pleased to say that participants are still reaching out to ask follow-up questions about the material covered in the various presentations. Last week we touched on a few of the notable (and surprising) items presented by the Office of…

June 19, 2025 EV Mandates Officially Invalidated On Thursday, President Trump formally signed into law a package of three congressional resolutions that struck down California’s Advanced Clean Cars II and Advanced Clean Truck rules, which mandated a phase-out in the sale of new passenger and heavy-duty vehicles by 2035. Under Governor Murphy, New Jersey became…

June 12, 2025 NJGCA Conference Success A big thank you to more than 80 people who attended our Conference yesterday. Attendees heard at length from both NJ DEP and Weights & Measures, and were able to engage in extensive questioning with the enforcement officials who oversee so much of their businesses.  Many people also noted…