Posted on 05/29/2007 5:21:37 AM PDT by rellimpank
Who grabs the most out of prices at the pump? Politicians are old hands at trying to get some mileage (sorry) out of any current trend that raises voters' ire. They hold hearings, they pass bills with feel-good monikers designed to convince constituents they're "doing something."
Take gasoline prices.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., was all over the oil companies last week on the subject of current gasoline prices. Which greedy characters benefit the most from such high prices, Sen. Reid?
"You go to a service station in Las Vegas, and the price of gasoline is $3.28 a gallon," Sen. Reid explained. "That man that has that service station doesn't make any money. He makes pennies -- pennies, less than a nickel a gallon. The oil companies and refineries make it all."
(Excerpt) Read more at lvrj.com ...
the largest percentage goes to the gubmint
Then the American public might come to better understand just who's screwing whom.
$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.
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
—in South Dakota, the total tax is displayed on a small sticker on the pump—
wow that chart is just amazing
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.
Government remains biggest oil profiteer
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 :)
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.
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 :)
I agree. Ignorance is not bliss.
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.
I question that. Where is the chart that shows us what Exxon, Mobil, etc. make on a gallon of gas?
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!
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.
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