On Sun, Feb 25, 2007 at 09:36:51PM -0800, Freddy Freeloader wrote: > Paul Johnson wrote: > >Michael Pobega wrote: > > > > > >>$4 per gallon though? That's amazing. I can't believe anyone can be > >>allowed to change that much for gas, it's highway robbery > >> > > > >That's the price of a gallon of gas. In the US, this price is largely > >subsidized by military force so it's artificially low. > > > > > > > > > Hardly. Why don't you take all the taxes out of your gas prices, then > you'll see the real cost of a gallon of gas where you live....
here's some fire. don't forget to include, in the real cost of a gallon of gas, the following items: the cost of construction of roadways so that you can use that gallon of gas; the cost to others for cleaning up residues left from burning gas (powerwashing buildings etc.); the cost to others of repairing things damaged by the residues of burning gas (melting marble statues etc); the medical costs incurred by those sickened from inhaling the results of burning gas; the cost of maintenance, washing and plowing the existing roadways; the cost of government subsidies and tax breaks for gasoline production; etc etc etc. I wonder what burning a gallon of gas really costs? (I don't know, I found a couple websites that suggest the true costs is somethinglike $5-6/galloon, but they were out of date and from likely biased sources). A
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