How much of the cost of 1 gallon of gas goes to taxes?

[GTaudiophile]

Find out!

 

[artikk]

Originally posted by: GTaudiophile
Find out!

this is how much. ----- it is to pay for the pollution with our health

 

[dullard]

You should see the taxes in most of the rest of the world (Europe especially). The gas tax there is often ~5 times the tax here.

 

[Demon-Xanth]

According to the stickers on the pumps. $0.19 to fed, $0.18 to state+sales tax. So for the current $1.80 gallon of gas, $0.50. That amount only includes the stuff that is taxed directly at the consumer, not refinery taxes, environmental impact fees, inspection fees, and other various operating taxes that the stations and refineries have to fork over.

 

[SWScorch]

The Stewarts gas stations around here have little posters on the pumps breaking down the cost of gas into its different parts. It's pretty neat, and shows you just how much is taxes.

 

[Fausto]

LET THE WHINING COMMENCE!!

 

[Amused]

Originally posted by: russianpower

Originally posted by: GTaudiophile
Find out!

this is how much. ----- it is to pay for the pollution with our health

Is there any FUD you haven't fallen for?

 

[royaldank]

Originally posted by: SWScorch
The Stewarts gas stations around here have little posters on the pumps breaking down the cost of gas into its different parts. It's pretty neat, and shows you just how much is taxes.

I thought that was required. Can't remember the last time I didn't see a cost breakdown sticker on a pump I was using.

 

[vi edit]

Originally posted by: royaldank

Originally posted by: SWScorch
The Stewarts gas stations around here have little posters on the pumps breaking down the cost of gas into its different parts. It's pretty neat, and shows you just how much is taxes.

I thought that was required. Can't remember the last time I didn't see a cost breakdown sticker on a pump I was using.

I've never seen them on any pump in the midwest.

 

[glugglug]

With all these effective extremely high sales taxes, not just on the obvious things like alchohol, cigarettes, & gas, but also on things you don't normally think of as high tax items, (check out the tax on pizza!), we really shouldn't need an income tax.

 

[artikk]

Originally posted by: Amused

Originally posted by: russianpower

Originally posted by: GTaudiophile
Find out!

this is how much. ----- it is to pay for the pollution with our health

Is there any FUD you haven't fallen for?

:shocked:
FUD-----link

<jargon> /fuhd/ An acronym invented by Gene Amdahl after he left IBM to found his own company: "FUD is the fear, uncertainty, and doubt that IBM sales people instill in the minds of potential customers who might be considering [Amdahl] products." The idea, of course, was to persuade them to go with safe IBM gear rather than with competitors' equipment. This implicit coercion was traditionally accomplished by promising that Good Things would happen to people who stuck with IBM, but Dark Shadows loomed over the future of competitors' equipment or software.
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(1995-05-23)

 

[conjur]

Roads don't build themselves.

 

[Kelemvor]

I'm pretty sure WI has one of the highest gas taxes in the country. And we have this crap reformulated garbage that makes our mileage go down as well. Such a crock.

 

[royaldank]

Originally posted by: vi_edit

Originally posted by: royaldank

Originally posted by: SWScorch
The Stewarts gas stations around here have little posters on the pumps breaking down the cost of gas into its different parts. It's pretty neat, and shows you just how much is taxes.

I thought that was required. Can't remember the last time I didn't see a cost breakdown sticker on a pump I was using.

I've never seen them on any pump in the midwest.

Interesting. I wonder if certain states require this sort of thing?

 

[Fausto]

Originally posted by: royaldank

Originally posted by: vi_edit

Originally posted by: royaldank

Originally posted by: SWScorch
The Stewarts gas stations around here have little posters on the pumps breaking down the cost of gas into its different parts. It's pretty neat, and shows you just how much is taxes.

I thought that was required. Can't remember the last time I didn't see a cost breakdown sticker on a pump I was using.

I've never seen them on any pump in the midwest.

Interesting. I wonder if certain states require this sort of thing?

Never seen anything like that in the SE either.

 

[FoBoT]

i don't know if this is current

but it lists the state portion of the tax


the pump sticker is state by state thing, some require it so that you know how much tax you are paying, other states don't bother

 

[mugs]

Originally posted by: royaldank

Originally posted by: SWScorch
The Stewarts gas stations around here have little posters on the pumps breaking down the cost of gas into its different parts. It's pretty neat, and shows you just how much is taxes.

I thought that was required. Can't remember the last time I didn't see a cost breakdown sticker on a pump I was using.

Why would the government require them to post something that shows how much the government is "at fault" for high gas prices?

I think you see them so often because the gas stations take it upon themselves to put them up so you don't blame them. (I never see them in NJ, but then we don't pump our own gas)

 

[nakedfrog]

Originally posted by: FrankyJunior
I'm pretty sure WI has one of the highest gas taxes in the country. And we have this crap reformulated garbage that makes our mileage go down as well. Such a crock.

Are you talking about the stuff with Ethanol or E*10 or whatever?

 

[His Lord Uberdude]

I feel sorry for smokers after looking at the tax on those stinkers.

 

[redly]

Originally posted by: vi_edit

I've never seen them on any pump in the midwest.

I've seen stickers on pumps in NW Iowa

 

[royaldank]

I suppose it's just the places I get gas. Really, there's 2 cheap places in my area. One is near work and the other is near the house. Both have the breakdowns on there. I'm not saying I notice this sticker every trip, but I've looked at it plenty of times before. This is in TN. I know I've seen them in GA. Until fairly recently, GA had just about the cheapest gas in the area. I remember checking their tax breakdown just because the price was always $0.30 less than TN.