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only/7393-fuel-cost-breakdown.html)  doughboyea 04-24-2006 11:18
AM  Fuel cost breakdown? I was just reading an AOL article where
a Senator quoted the price per barrel of oil at $75.  My
question here is:  How much does it cost to produce gasoline
from crude oil?  If at $75/barrel, that's 42 gallons which comes
to ~$1.79/gallon. So.. most of us are paying somewhere in the
$2.80 to $3.25/gallon (or more) for premium fuels and where the
regular fuels aren't too far behind.  I know there's a
production cost, then there's the delivery cost, then gas
station percentages. So in that extra $1 of more of price bump,
what's the breakdown? Or is it true that the large oil companies
are price gouging?   witeshark 04-24-2006 11:21 AM  Oil
companies are having records profits. I think gou