To all that complane about the price of gas I thought I would give you a breakdown from the department of energys statistics, so you can calculate what it should cost yourselves....
57% is the cost of the crude oil
8% is the cost of refineing
15% is the cost of transporting it, and marketing
20% is all TAX
thats the cost to produce the gas, and get it to the station, the remainder of the cost is local costs from the individual station, and finnaly profits for both the station, and the oil company, to figure out how much that is just take the current cost for a barrel, of oil, cut it in half, then divide it by 27.5 (only half of the oil is actual gas the rest is everything else so half of a 55 gallon drum is 27.5 gallons so first cut the cost of a barrel of oil in half since only half is actually gasolene, then divide by 27.5 to get the cost per gallon....), and that will give you the bare cost of the fuel thats ignoreing the refineing, transport, and marketing, taxes, and everything else thats the price for the raw product, the price can not go below that even if there were no other costs, this is 57% of the cost to produce the gasolene so now that you know what 57% is you can figure out the rest....
Cost of a barrel of oil divided by 2 divided by 27.5= A A=57%
A+8%+15%+20%=cost to produce
or A divided by 57x100
So if oil were $60 a barrel then the cost to produce is $1.91 per gallon, thats only the national average though the furthur away you are from the refinery, or if refineing is disrupted it goes up....
Now subtract the cost to produce from the cost of gas to get the local overhead, any other costs, pump taxes, and finnaly profit, unfortunetly it's imposibal to know how much local, overhead, and other costs are without asking, but taxes we do know the federal tax is 18 cents per gallan, then theres the state tax in Michigan for example it's 28 cents, so thats 46 cents a gallon more on top of the other taxes that were already collected so it's actually 46 cents plus 20% of the cost to produce just in TAX, add to that every area of the country requirs it's own special blends to satisfy it's own local environmentalist wackos, there is a seperate summer, and winter blend, some areas are required to mix in ethenol to satisfy the environmentalist wackos which is more expensive than gas, they used to be able to use lead to boost the octane, but the environmentalist whackos got it banned, now they have to use chemicals which are alot more expensive, and we haven't built any new refinerys since or built any new Nuclear plants since the 1970's (some power plants use oil....) because the environmentalist wackos won't let us , the actual profit margins are actually alot lower than you think.... Now take the cost of gas at your local station, and subtract the cost to produce, useing the example above $1.91 the national average price per gallon now is $2.28 I think, now we get 37 cents now subtract the 18 cent Federal Tax to get 19 cents, now subtract your state tax, and whatevers left over is the local over head, other costs, the local profit, and the oil companys profit....
This is in responce to all those people not nessesarily on this board who like to blame the prices on the "evil corporations", I find it ironic that alot of these people are the same tax and spend Liberals, and environmentalist whackos that are responsibal for alot of the higher price, and won't let us drill in ANWR (which has about as much oil as SAUDI ARABIA....) to lower the price....
Oh and John sKerry wanted to impose an additional 50 cents per gallon of tax....