Saturday, July 2, 2011

WHO IS GOUGING WHOM ?


OIL COMPANY PROFITS LAST QUARTER
7 cents per gallon  = 2% of sale price*


GOV'T (U.S. + State) PROFIT (TAX) ON GASOLINE

40 - 60 cents per gallon = 11 - 16% of sale price*

and we need to tax these fat-cat oil companies more ?

""For every gallon of gasoline and other products we refined and sold in the United States, we earned about 7 cents," said a statement from Exxon vice president Ken Cohen. "Compare that to the 40 to 60 cents per cents per gallon that went to the government (state and federal) in gasoline taxes." 
[CNN MONEY]

* at $3.75/gal retail price

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