“California lawmakers enjoy a perk not available to their colleagues in any other state: unchecked use of gasoline charge cards that stick taxpayers with the bill.”
The Seattle city council gets free gas too or they used to any way. A couple of years ago, Kiro did a story on how the council gets paid by the weight of their car and they all made a killing on getting paid for gas. It may have ended because of the investigative report but you can still read it on line.