It seems that this would be a good question to ask Ben Braver, since he
works for a refinery. Any one willing to forward the question to him?

larry

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Doug White [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Tuesday, June 08, 2004 12:40 PM
> To: CF-Community
> Subject: Re: US Oil Problems.
>
>
> You are seeing only the end-user taxes.
> 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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