Ok! Now that I have your Attention on gas prices:?
How many of your know or realize that most of what you are paying for gasoline at the pump is taxes?
How many of you know that what is post as the taxes you are paying at the pump is only a small fraction of the taxes you are really paying:
Here is some taxes you are really paying:
Oil is taxed at the well head before it ever leaves the ground both state and Federal taxes.
Oil is taxed at the storage tanks as soon as it is pumped out both state and local:
Oil is taxed in pipe lines to refineries! Both state and federal:
Oil is taxed each step of the refining process: Both state and federal.
So by time it is all said and done oil companies are making less than a dollar a gallon gross! Out of that they have to pay wages and invest in new wells and new equipment and repairs to existing equipment:
How many ever thought about that?
For all those who say there is nothing we can do about it. What we can do is hold congress and state governments accountable for all the hidden taxes they are so fond of passing.
Then ask ourselves if I was a H.R. manager would I really trust that person with the company's money when deciding who to vote on in an election.