What pisses me off is being gouged for at the gas pump, A gas line brakes and I have to pay for it?
7-11 doesn't charge more when the coke machine is broken.
Gas has gone to over $2.05 a gallon this is higher tha pre war pricing, It is price fixing at the worst level. It is time for the goverment to step in before it fucks up what little headway the economy has had.
Would someone please explain to me why Gas will jump 20+cents overnight, and go down a penny at a time for weeks, just to get back to where it was !!
I remember about 2 years ago when Gas was around a buck a gallon. Then it went way up to $1.50, and then threatened the $2 mark. They pretty much "conditioned" us for higher prices, and made us "feel" that $1.50 a gallon wasn't that bad. That's BullShit !! And that seems to be the mark at where they stay around even with these temporary little jumps in prices. You watch........
Oxygenated and/or "clean" fuels cost more. The refiners are also being required to install de-sulfurizing processes for motor fuels that may cost hudreds of millions of dollars, and take 5 or more years from engineering, to permitting, to construction. The EPA is to blame here.
Federal gas tax is 18.4 cents/gal (and not enough to keep up with conditions or inflation). Most states average 20 cents/gal to pay full-ticket for building & maintaining their non-federally funded systems. A portion of the state tax is used to leverage up to 80% or 90% of federal money on US Highway, Interstate and Federal Aid Primary or Urban (FAP, U) routes.
I often notice that the retail price split between regular, plus and premium grades is about 10 cents/gal. The true COST difference is on the order of 2-3 cents/gal. The prices jump faster than they drop in part because they get billed for a 7000 gallon transport load all at once, but it may take 2-3 weeks for some retailers to sell it off.
More than half of that outrageous price IS the govmint (taxes). They are already WAY too involved! [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]
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