"Icebound" wrote in message ...



...as long as you realize that what taxes you are not collecting on gasoline, you are ultimately collecting somewhere
else, so you end up paying for it anyway, one way or another.


One estimate has 12.5 billion in annual subsidies to petroleum companies (and that's back in 1998). That is coming
from somewhere.

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



The problem here is that we are continuing to pay those 'hidden' expenses and taxes while also paying the ever
increasing costs of the gasolene. The prices are being driven by speculators, not by true demand, and the profits are
exorbitant.