[kellynla]

[Blood of Tyrants]

Your chart is skewed. Refining costs are nowhere near 22% (comes out to roughly 53 cents a gallon). Refining costs are more or less constant. Remember a few years ago when gas was selling for 80 cents/gal? The oil companies AND the retailers were making a profit while taxes were 40 cents on a gallon! That means that total production and distribution costs were about 25 cents a gallon.

[Mike Darancette]

But he is saying that the cost of American oil should be free.