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I would love to see all the people complaining about big oil, start complaining to their facist state/federal government to remove all the taxes on gasoline.
For Californians:
The State of California operates its own reformulated gasoline program with more stringent requirements than Federally-mandated clean gasolines. In addition to the higher cost of cleaner fuel, there is a combined State and local sales and use tax of 7.25 percent on top of an 18.4 cent-per-gallon federal excise tax and an 18.0 cent-per-gallon State excise tax.
New York is the worst at 30 cents a gallon on top of the Federal Tax.
Oil price is dictated by the market, and the market deems oil to be valued at 65 dollar a barrel. The middle east is in turmoil, refineries have been offline, etc etc. The USA is no longer the only high end consumer... With the help of the USA offloading jobs and the continued purchase of trinkets, we have risen China to a level that they are also demanding more oil.
The finger of blame can be pointed everywhere, but the root of this evil is not the oil companies.
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