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

Faelan Caimbeul faelancaimbeul at gmail.com
Wed Apr 26 15:33:43 PDT 2006


15 years ago in po-dunk. ;-)

Faelan

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Of David Whitford
Sent: Friday, April 21, 2006 4:29 PM
To: Kingdom of Ansteorra - SCA, Inc.
Subject: Re: [Ansteorra] Re: gas prices too high...sorry had to share this

Trying to remember the last time I saw a full service
pump...
Robert

--- Shane B IJ <shaneb at ij.net> wrote:

> 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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