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Who’s Really To Blame For $3-A-Gallon Gas?
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Rob - 01:09pm on 09/13/2005

Thanks for the update Rob.  I often forget about the Tax on gas.  Just like I forget about how much I pay in income tax since it comes right out of my check.

Seth Yantiss - 02:09pm on 09/13/2005

Fine. We’ll do away with the highway trust funds that these taxes go to, and see how much money we save by forgoing road maintenance. I’m sure you’ll enjoy buying new leaf springs every six months.

Heraldblog - 04:09pm on 09/13/2005

Things will be better when a couple of million barrels/day of Iraqi crude come on line.

WOOF - 05:09pm on 09/13/2005

Right, because there’s absolutely no pork what-so-ever in those highway bills.

Rob - 05:09pm on 09/13/2005

3 bucks a gallon, men i wish we had those prices..we pay what three times four times more...time to pick a country and start a oilwar.
greetz from Europe.

hemaworstje - 07:09pm on 09/13/2005

Things will be better when a couple of million barrels/day of Iraqi crude come on line.

Could be… more crude means lower cost for crude, thus lower cost for gas refiners… but there is still the problem of producing enough gas to meet the demand for it.

Seth Yantiss - 05:09am on 09/14/2005

[...] Third, the gist of the legislation backed by Dorgan is that “excessive profits” from oil companies will be taxed heavily and re-distributed to the people. If they really want to lower price and give citizens back some of their money why don’t they lower federal taxes on gasoline? Why institute a new tax when they could effect the same sort of change, more directly, by lowering the nearly $0.50/gallon U.S. citizens already pay on average in gas taxes? A simple $0.04/gallon decrease in taxes could save citizens $6 billion. [...]

Say Anything - North Dakota’s Most Popular P - 08:11pm on 11/08/2005

[...] As bureaucrats in Wahington continue their grandstanding indictment of the oil industry for “excessive profits” and “price gouging” keep in mind that, on average, American citizens pay $0.49/gallon in state and federal taxes. [...]

Say Anything - North Dakota’s Most Popular P - 10:11am on 11/11/2005
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