The average profit on a gallon of gas for the oil companies is $0.09. For some reason people are convinced that this is an outlandishly high margin.
Now let's look at another factor in the price of gas. This is paid to someone who does nothing to find, produce, refine, transport, or market the product. It would certainly seem fair that they claim, on average, $0.42 per gallon.
How is it that someone who has no stake in bringing the product to market should make the largest profit in the selling of that product. Unless you were born yeaterday, you can probably figure it out, it's the government.
What was the purpose of taking this amount of money? They claimed that it was to maintain the roadways that the oil comapnies, and consumers, needed to use this product...the roads, bridges, ect.
Now, what are these funds that the goverment, state and federal, using these funds for? Seems like everything but. As the funds grew and, believe it or not, they couldn't spend the money fast enough, they did what all governmant entities do when they realize that they have "extra" funds, they rewrote the law to release the funds to unrelated projects.
Your taxes that were originally earmarked for highway maintainance and improvement, are now syphoned off to pay for education, drug programs, health care for the poor (illegals), and a lot more than they told us in the original bills.
I have been dodging the same pothole on the freeway going to work for over three yeaars. The street I live on has "been at the top of the list" for over 15 years for resurfacing, because "it is beyond salvations with a slurry seal".
If these things were fixed, in a timely manner, I might not be upset about the monies I've forked over for these repairs. but being they don't get fixed, I am being lied to. If you want funds for a specific project, you tell me, don't just take my money and use it for whatever you want with what's left over of you decide should be used someplace else.
This is taxation without representation, You took my money to accomplish something, with my approval, but then decided that those monies should go to somewhere else, without my approval. You do not know better than I do, Congress, state or federal, is suppose to represent me, not tell me what is for the "better good" and direct funds that way without my say so.
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Haven't we heard that same old whine by you "self-mades" over and over. Its your damn government too, so pay attention, make sure the wording of the tax legislation is explicit. If it isn't and it's not to your liking find the legislators responsible for drafting it (or redrafting it) and have it "fixed." Should be no problem now that the party of the "self-mades" are in full power, executive, legislative & judicial. Perfect America NO COLOREDS, ALL WHITE MALES GET FREE HOOKERS, LIBERALS AND RELATED EXECUTED IN TOWN SQUARES!
...find the legislators responsible for drafting it (or redrafting it) and have it "fixed." Should be no problem now that the party of the "self-mades" are in full power, executive, legislative & judicial.
You should be able to tell that I live in California, so where you got the idea that the "self-mades" are in full power is beyond me.
And, yes I have written and voted against the redirection of earmarked funds. It's just that more people here like the idea of letting the goverment take care of all the problems, so they don't have to think about it. Then they bitch about the cost of things and want the government to take care of that also.
Of course, government is not going to blame themselves for driving up the cost of a product, so they take the easy way out and claim the company is "price gouging".
Finally, I must assume that your final sentence is your view of America, because it isn't mine.
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