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Skriven 2006-08-22 12:57:00 av BOB KLAHN (1:123/140)
     Kommentar till en text av TIM RICHARDSON
Ärende: Cheney's
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 BK>>>>>   Total gas tax between 25.9 and 48.4 cents per gallon. Or less
 BK>>>>>   than 10% to just over 16%.

 TR> California gets  about $.31 per gallon in taxes. Local
 TR> sales tax is around $.08 per dollar....about $.24 per
 TR> gallon.

 I gave gas tax, not sales tax. And I believe I gave my source as
 the Statistical Abstract of the US for state taxes.

 TR> I use mid-grade gasoline in all my vehicles (four-door
 TR> Oldsmobile, GMC 1/2 ton pickup, 23 foot motor home with a
 TR> Dodge V8 engine), and recently paid $3.19 per gallon to
 TR> fill up the motor home.

 Still in the 10% range for taxes.

 TR> Out of that gallon, the feds got over 18 cents (18
 TR> point-something), the state of California got thirty-one
 TR> cents, and the locals got around 8 cents on the dollar.

 TR> Thats fifty seven cents.

 In the range I gave.

 ...

 TR> So...rounding the seven and a half downward to just
 TR> seven......that makes about 3.12 per gallon. Taking the
 TR> governments 18 cents, that leaves 3,02. take away the
 TR> states' thirty one cents you got 2.71. After local sales
 TR> tax of 8 cents on the dollar.....thats roughly 2.47.
 TR> Actually...a little less than that due to decimal point
 TR> stuff....buts its just after five AM right now and I'm not
 TR> gonna fuck around with calculators right now.

 TR> So....you got about $2.47 going to the oil companies.

 TR> Out of that......there are wages to employees, operating
 TR> costs (drilling, exploration, shipping, refining),
 TR> distributing, and delivery costs. *After* all those

 Which do not change just because the price of oil changes.

 TR> costs.....the oil company gets a profit.....on which *they*
 TR> also pay taxes.

 Do they? Where?

 TR> Not to mention the `payroll taxes' on all the oil company'
 TR> employees wages.

 Which does *NOT* count against the oil companies, except their
 share of Social Security. And not all of which is in this
 country.

 JM>>  ->> How much profit does the average oil company make on that same
 JM>> gallon of ->> gas?

 BS>>> Non sequitor.

 BS>>> The claim was made that taxes represented the "biggest cost of a
 BS>>> gallon of gasoline" to which you replied, ""By far."

 TR> And.......I guess that makes both of us *guilty*! I made
 TR> the original mistake (although not by much), and you
 TR> `failed' to correct me immediately!  I think there's a
 TR> special place in Hell reserved just for us.

 You know better than we do.

 Also note. I was speaking of the oil companies big enough to
 have significant influence on the price of oil, IIRC.

BOB KLAHN bob.klahn@sev.org   http://home.toltbbs.com/bobklahn

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