[Ansteorra] Re: gas prices too high...sorry had to share this

[Shane B IJ]

Check this out!

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/060420/480/la11304202125

$4.04 cents a gallon in Beverly Hills CA

Those 6 buck prices are coming!

Alastair



> It's quite possible that the state of California has higher gasoline
> taxes now than then... and it looks like they do...
>
> This site (http://www.vancouvergasprices.com/tax_info.aspx) states that
> California has 26 cents per gallon, but notes that the 18 cent per
> gallon Federal tax not included, and LOCAL gasoline taxes are not
> included.  I'd say the tax rate is really about $.50 per gallon probably.
>
> And delivery charges are not the same for different locations.  They
> tend to get higher the farther you go from the refinery.  Ponca City has
> cheaper gas than Stillwater.  Ponca City also has a refinery in the
> town, there's a bit of a correlation.
>
> JP
>
>
>
> Ambience said the following on 4/21/2006 12:02 PM:
>> <snip>
>>
>> At 08:18 AM 4/21/2006, you wrote:
>>> Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2006 22:23:03 -0500
>>> From: "David J. Hughes" <davidjhughes.tx at netzero.net>
>>> Subject: Re: [Ansteorra] gas prices too high...sorry had to share this
>>>
>>> Gasoline, $ 3.00 / gallon
>>> Federal taxes   0.40
>>> Station owner's cut, (pays the salaryof the workers, bills, property
>>> tax, etc.) 0.03
>>> ExxonMobil's cut  under franchise contract  0.01
>>> Delivery charge 0.03
>>> Processing  costs 0.25  (operating costs, maintanence, salary of
>>> operators, catalysts, etc.)
>>> Raw material cost (price of oil per barrel times @1.35 divided by 42
>>> gallons per barrel)
>>> for $71 per barrel    2.28
>>> total 3.00
>>>
>>> Price of oil is set by market demand.  $1.30 gasoline requires oil at
>>> $18
>>> At $1 per barrel, the cost would be $ 0.75
>>>
>>>
>>> That 1.35 number? Not all of a barrel can be made into gasoline, and
>>> some of it is used to fuel the refinery itself, to generate high
>>> pressure steam, electricity, make hydrogen,  etc.
>>
>>
>> I'm sorry this is off topic, but it really effects our disposable
>> income, ie how much we can spend on our hobbies...
>>
>> I have to respectfully disagree with some of the numbers above.  I did
>> some searching on just that last night)
>> Below is a table I copied from the California state government page.
>> (Sorry I didn't see a table like this for Texas) back in Nov of 2000
>> crude oil was selling around $36 a barrel, yesterday it was $72. By my
>> reckoning that should have doubled the crude oil cost of the equation,
>> adding about 74-80 cents to the cost.  Making the price around $2.60
>> per gallon, I checked http://www.californiagasprices.com/ and prices
>> are around   $3.30 per gallon. Either the dealers or refiners have
>> increased their profit margin by quite a bit.  Oil companies did
>> report record profits last year.  I guess they want to this year too.
>>
>> Most of us will continue to fork it out at the pumps, gripe about it,
>> and cut back on other things.  Do something Write your congressman,
>> tell him/her how displeased you are, ask them what they are doing
>> about it.
>>
>> Nov 6, 2000 Nov 13, 2000 Nov 20, 2000 Nov 27, 2000 Dec 4, 2000 Dec 11,
>> 2000 Dec 18, 2000 Dec 26, 2000
>> Dealers Cost and Profit Margin (1) - $0.02 $0.10 $0.17 $0.15 $0.16
>> $0.26 $0.26 $0.23
>> Crude Oil Cost $0.74 $0.78 $0.81 $0.80 $0.67 $0.59 $0.59 $0.50
>> Refinery Cost and Profit Margin (2) $0.57 $0.40 $0.28 $0.30 $0.40
>> $0.36 $0.33 $0.44
>> State and Local Sales Tax $0.13 $0.13 $0.13 $0.13 $0.13 $0.13 $0.12 $0.12
>> State Excise Tax $0.18 $0.18 $0.18 $0.18 $0.18 $0.18 $0.18 $0.18
>> Federal Excise Tax $0.18 $0.18 $0.18 $0.18 $0.18 $0.18 $0.18 $0.18
>> Retail Prices $1.79 $1.78 $1.75 $1.74 $1.72 $1.69 $1.66 $1.65
>>
>>
>> table from http://www.energy.ca.gov/gasoline/margins/2000.html  (this
>> page has lots of information and graphs)
>>
>>
>> sincerely,
>> Seraphina
>>
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