"Mike Rapoport" wrote in message
hlink.net...
I was only trying to dispell the idea that the oil company was making the
difference.


I realize that...I should have addressed the question to Julian, rather than
your response to him, since he's the one making the claim without knowing
the price breakdown.


"Tom Sixkiller" wrote in message
...

"Mike Rapoport" wrote in message
link.net...
How much of that $4.55 is the FBO making? Here in the US, the FBO
markup
is
much larger than the refining margin.

And what other taxes/fees does it include?

Why do our capitalistic FBO's charge as little as $2.00-2.50 a gallon,
whilr
Julian's charge $7.70?

WRT MoGas, the refiners do all the work and make about $0.12-0.18 a
gallon,
while the states and feds make $0.38-0.45 a gallon (for a stroke of the
pen).


Mike
MU-2


"Julian Scarfe" wrote in message
news:zr60c.605$GQ.303@newsfe1-win...
Interesting. Here in the UK, we're paying about $7.70 per gallon
for
100LL.

About $1.15 is sales tax levied on almost all goods.
About $2.00 is the excise duty on Avgas.

That leaves $4.55 per gallon, which is more than twice the price
John
paid,
according to his original post. Why is the price so high? Because
the
oil
companies can get away with it. I think you call that "capitalism",
don't
you?

Julian Scarfe


"Dennis O'Connor" wrote in message
...
Kees, have you folks ever thought about a bit of an armed
rebellion
to
cure
this? It does tend to work - reference the secession of the
American
Colonies from Great Britain, circa 1770's for details on how...

OK - pulling my tongue out of my cheek - your example of
strangling
gasoline
prices is is exactly why the "isms" all fail... Communism has
fallen...
Socialism in Europe will survive perhaps another one or two
generations,
three at the most, and you then either collapse into endless
poverty
with
a
whimper or another Strong Man will take center stage and arouse
the
masses
with bellowing about enemies to the east, enemies to the west, the
machinations of jews/capitalists/catholics/etc., and seize power
and
then
Europe will be back in the grip of it's historic leader, a
dictator/king...

Unfortunately, the disease of socialism is spreading in the USA,
also...
sigh It has been a glorious ride, this mix of democracy and
capitalism
these past 231 years... It is a shame to seethat the rot of
socialism
has
it
now doomed...
denny

"Kees Mies" wrote in message As other
posters
mentioned prices can differ locally.
This morning I filled my van for $5.34/gallon unleaded.
Last time, about a month ago, I bought 100LL for $8.83/gallon.
BTW, this is the Netherlands, sigh.
And we have landing fees too, another sigh.