There are wellhead taxes, and taxes on the products, importers, and refiners as
well.
http://www.petrodril.com/tptc1999.htm
http://www.taxadmin.org/fta/rate/motor_fl.html
There are more resources, of course.
----- Original Message -----
From: Ken Ketsdever
To: CF-Community
Sent: Tuesday, June 08, 2004 11:02 AM
Subject: RE: US Oil Problems.
I filled up the truck this morning, $68 at $2.25 a gallon. While I was
filling up I noticed the tax rates on gas. In Sacramento California I am paying
18 cents a gallon state tax and 18.6 cents a gallon that only adds up to about
16% of the $2.25 a gallon I paid for gas. So I am not sure where you get your
statement "Over half of the price you pay for fuel is taxes". Even if I add in
sales tax that would only be another 15 cents or so.
-----Original Message-----
From: Doug White [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, June 08, 2004 8:46 AM
To: CF-Community
Subject: Re: US Oil Problems.
Pardon the top post;
The Alaskan Oil is being sold mainly to Japan.
The Texas Oil is mainly capped off due to regulations.
The California oil is blocked by the greens (environmentalists)
Oklahoma cannot supply the rest of the nation
There has been no new oil refineries built in the US in twenty years,
therefore
we could not refine enough crude to supply the US even if there was plenty of
crude to go around.
Over half of the price you pay for fuel is taxes
Oh, and there is plenty of oil in Mexico who would like to sell to the US, but
the US has always refused to pay them market price. The same applies to their
natural gas, so they just burn that off.
Argentina has plenty of oil, but political turmoil has its production pretty
well turned off.
Lastly, if we solved all the above problems, then how would Bush % Co. take
care
of their Saudi Buddies?
Most of us know that we need to get new dipsticks in DC.
There are a lot of folks who can't understand how we came to have an oil
shortage here in America. Well, there's a very simple answer......Nobody
bothered to check the oil! We just didn't know we were getting low. The
reason for that is purely geographical:
All our oil is in Alaska, Texas, California, and Oklahoma and All our
dipsticks are in Washington, DC.
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