"Gig 601XL Builder" wrDOTgiaconaATcox.net wrote in message
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"Icebound" wrote in message
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"Jay Honeck" wrote in message
oups.com...
Not to degenerate this to a political argument, but numerous studies
have been
done to determine the "true" price of gasoline in the U.S.... not what
the pump price
is. The studies vary, but usually it adds an additional $2-$6/gallon
that we pay for
the fuel, only indirectly through other taxes.

Could you expand on that, please?
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He may be referring to THIS report:

http://209.200.74.155/doc/Real%20Pri...20Gasoline.pdf

from the US-based "International Center for Technology Assessment".

It was done way back 1998 or 2000, I believe, and concluded the "true"
price could be from around 4.60 (then), up to more than $14 a gallon...
and that the consumer was shielded from this in various ways.





I always have a problem with any report that takes into account, as an
added real cost, money the government DOESN'T take away from a person or
company.

That study could have just a easily have said the actual cost of gas is
$100.00/gal but doesn't because the government decided not to tax gas at
X00%.

Do you know how much you actually pay for food thanks to government
agricultural "subsidies"? Do you know how much money you give away to oil
companies because the Shrub in the WH thinks we should extend exemptions
from payment of royalties from gulf oil extraction, for example, even though
the subsidies are only meant to be used when oil prices are really low? Most
citizens of this country are totally blind to the reaming they get on the
part of their government.


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