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Forgot your password?  Comment Re:$5? that's nothing (Score 1)
1205  Most of the price of your fuel is in taxes. The US Federal
tax on gasoline -which goes to pay for maintenance on the the
Interstate highways- is somewhere around eighteen cents a gallon
and hasn't changed in thirty-something years. States also have
individual sales taxes that are a fixed amount or a fixed
percentage of the sale price -with Florida being the highest
(with a sliding scale) the last time I bothered to look.  The
root cause of the increase in the price of oil and gasoline is
speculation by large banks, brokerage firms and commodities
traders. Most of these 'traders' never take actual delivery of
the product. If the Obama administration would get off its ass
and re-regulate the commodities markets to prevent all the
'paper trading' of commodities, then the price of oil and
gasoline would drop by fifty percent and we wouldn't be talking
about this.  Comment Re:Really