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Another major price factor in retail gas that nobody seems to have mentioned is federal, state and local TAXE$.
The county where I live decided, several years ago, that they really would like some mo' money, so they gave us our very own special extra 10 cents/gal tax.
Total tax take here is about 50 cents/gal (I think). Gas stations here used to be required to have a sticker on each pump showing total tax per gallon, but a several years ago the stickers all mysteriously disappeared overnight. I guess the government thought John Q. Public was being overinformed.
Ed
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We used to own the government, now the government owns us. Where'd we go wrong?
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