Originally Posted by racephoto1:
I know this is political but.....
If our governments were tighter on their purse strings, they wouldn't tax gas (petrol) to death. Most of te cost is in the taxes, not the product.
This is kinda true. I've learned a lot about the way all this works. The troll at the gate that is the problem isn't the government. The government pretty much has a flat tax on it, but when the cost goes up, so does the taxes, that's just how it is.
The money is made from the refinery to the distributor, they are the ones that is making all the money. I quoted a trucking compay 6,000 gallons for their tank at the truck yard a few months back, I wasn't making any money at all virtually, but the actual "cost" of fuel I know for a fact was about half what we had to charge.
There are so few actual fuel distributors (for a reason, so the market doesn't get flooded and the price goes down), and all the fuel distributors (the big ones) are all owned by the oil companies, then sell to the smaller people, to where they have to sell so much to even make a buck. If they didn't tax anything at all, the price would maybe go down 75 cents.
