Greed and gasoline prices

Las Vegas Review-Journal ^ | 29 may 07

[mylife]

the largest percentage goes to the gubmint

[mewzilla]

Some Pubbie pol ought to sponsor legislation mandating that gas stations prominently display all gas taxes, federal, state, and local.

Then the American public might come to better understand just who's screwing whom.

[Kieri]

$3.28 a gallon???

It got up to $3.69 in Michigan. It’s come down to $3.40 or so in the last week, but we’ve got the 2nd highest gas prices next to California.

And yes, our liberal-ruled state is raking in the gas taxes.

[goldstategop]

I'd like to take Dingy Harry by his scruffy neck, turn him upside down and shake out his pockets - so what the government stole from gas station owners as pure profit in the form of tax gouging can be returned to them so they can stay in business and serve their customers.

Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." -Manuel II Paleologus

[xcamel]

More misdirected anger and retarded behavior... The Fed and the States "make" 3x the money on each gallon of fuel than the sataion owners, and "big oil" makes combined.

[rellimpank]

—in South Dakota, the total tax is displayed on a small sticker on the pump—

[Flavius]

wow that chart is just amazing

[The Great RJ]

Sen. Reid is also invoking the old BS about "big oil" as if the oil companies were still owned by J. D. Rockafeller and a few of his cronies. That 13 cents per gallon in "obscene" profit benefits the owners of Big Oil, including a lot of individual stock holders as well as the pension funds of millions of retirees. Note that those 13 cents per gallon profits also get taxed again as those stockholders pay capital gains taxes on their earnings not to mention the 35% Federal Corporate Income Tax already taken out.

High gasoline taxes are a direct result of the Democrats no drill policies and the years of red tape it would take to build any new refinery capacity. Lets not for get the federal and state gasoline taxes that take their whack at the pump.

[george76]

Government remains biggest oil profiteer

[mewzilla]

—in South Dakota, the total tax is displayed on a small sticker on the pump—

Snort.

If the federal government can mandate what the size of the holes in Swiss cheese must be, mandating large print size for gas tax signage shouldn't be a problem :)

[jwpjr]

I recall a time years ago when the taxes on each gallon of gas were listed on the pumps in Florida. Don’t know if it was a state law or just convention, but every pump had a sticker showing the taxes per gallon at each level.

It would be very helpful if EVERY tax had to be identified. We tend to think of taxes and right away we think income tax and social security. There are so many more taxes and they seem to be part of anything and everything we do.

When you include all the taxes at every level and in every form they come to close taking fifty percent of what we earn.

Way too much. Government spending is, and has been, out of control for decades. And it gets higher every year, year after year.

If you look at each spending item most budget items seem to be reasonable, but in the aggregate they really add up. Government is into so many things it has no business doing.

That’s the good news, the bad news is that we don’t stand a snowball’s chance in hell of stopping it or getting government under control. It will stop someday, but it will be when the entire system comes crashing down around our ears, like the depression of the 20’s.

[rellimpank]

---IMHO, it's none of the feds business what the sellers put on the pump--I don't know who "mandates" the sign but suspect it's done by the owner.

In any case , at least half of the general publc is too ignorant to read it , even if the sign was several feet on the sides---

[mewzilla]

In any case , at least half of the general publc is too ignorant to read it , even if the sign was several feet on the sides---

I say we should test that assumption.

Here's hoping some Pubbie pol takes me up on that :)

[mewzilla]

It would be very helpful if EVERY tax had to be identified.

I agree. Ignorance is not bliss.

[GBA]

"Only 13 cents for each gallon we buy in Nevada may go to the "greedy" oil companies, but more than 51 cents go to ... government."

[LantzALot]

Thanks for the great display. Just for my own curiosity: do you know if the CA number includes Sales Tax? CA used to require that taxes be displayed, but when they imposed the Sales Tax on gasoline, allowed it to be hidden (at the pump) in the price.

[raybbr]

More misdirected anger and retarded behavior... The Fed and the States "make" 3x the money on each gallon of fuel than the sataion owners, and "big oil" makes combined.

I question that. Where is the chart that shows us what Exxon, Mobil, etc. make on a gallon of gas?

[Sacajaweau]

People BUY water in bottles to take in their SUV’s. I fill an old bottle with tap water. Guess who spends more on a 20 mile trip!

[RetiredArmy]

But, but, but, it is not enough. They want to make roads all TOLL roads to get more money because they don’t get enough in taxes to fix roads and bridges. They need more money. TAX, TAX, TAX. The biggest three letter word in the English language. Every politician has this as his/her middle name now. TAX.