who pays the 18 cents fed tax on gas, the manufacture,distributor,or the station owner?
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The the station owner charges you for it but he is responsible for giving the funds to the government.
1113177
gas stations.. buy a gallon and enjoy
128405
Won't work unless everybody makes the same amount of money. The person who has a minimum wage job would get screwed, he doesn't have that much taxes taken out to off set the  increase in gas costs.
170733
$22.00 at any given gas station that exists between Clermont and Orlando.
726252
18 US cents = 8.14 rupees.
545987
Why don't you email them and get the answers. Any Publically traded company has to disclose that information.\n\nI can assure you GM spends more on coffee in a qtr, than you and I make in a year.
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In California you could report the station to the local environmental management department or the AQMD because of the malfunctioning shut off but you since you are required by law to be in attendance while pumping, you would be liable for the price of the spilled fuel and possibly any clean up costs if it is a large spill.
598226
The bastards are messing with us!  They are simply raising the prices to fatten up their wallets.  Their profits have raised by 30% and they keep changing the reasons for prices going up.  We never get a straight answer.  First its "a pipe broke and needs to be repaired so oil has gone up", then its "everyones using too much gas in their suvs", then its "we're negotiating to lower prices", um, excuse me but doesnt Bush OWN a refinery?
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I paid 25 cents for a gallon of gas in 1971.  I was making $3.80 an hour.  In 2006 I am paying $2.85 for a gallon of gas.  I am making $80,000 a year.  My earnings have gone up, but along with that so have prices of products.  If inflation increases 5.1% for the year you are taking a 3% wage cut.
125500
Archer Daniels Midland -- they have a virtual lock on the Federal subsidies and the refining infrastructure.  Don't particularly like the company, but that wasn't your question.
1026029
Greed.  Plain and simple.  Most store owners will tell you they make very little money on the gas.  It's all the soda, beer, smokes, and snacks that brings in the buck. But if they can get an extra few cents profit on gas, they will nickle and dime you to death!
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This is the duck and run senerio.\nWHO is responsible?\nthe Govenor?\nThe mayor?\nThe State?\nThe Fed?\nTo many things happened and the RIGHT solutions DIDNT happen.\nThe FED cant come in, until the STATE asks.\nthe state didnt know or care.\nThe city GOV, didnt know who to call.\n\nThe FED is responsible for the roads, and gov facilities.\nThe state is responsible for the STATE facilities,\nThe HOMES, are not covered.  Except under insurance, and the LAND OWNER.\nThe BUSINESS's are NOT covered.  Except as they paid their INSURRANCE.\n\nIf they DUMP all of it on the FED, YOU WILL PAY FOR IT.
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my dad is an independent contractor for fed ex ground. (i know this is different) but he had to buy his route that he delivers to, buy his own trucks for delivery buy all the fed ex logos for them, and buy his uniforms and such. it is legal.
774056
Market forces my behind. The price of crude is still dropping while the price of gas is creeping up again. Are people really trying to say the price of gas dropped seventy five cents after labor day because the summer driving season ended? Get real. The oil industry is globally manipulated and further down the chain manipulated by everyone who can manipulate it. Every oil company dumps their gas into a common pipeline and then pulls it out somewhere else along that pipeline. Exxon-Mobil, Citgo, Chevron...it's all the same gasoline. They each add some ingredients to try to distinguish themselves from one another with whatever they claim their gas does to enhance your engines performance. Think there's no manipulation? What happened to the oil shortage from thirty five years ago?
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Fed Reserve, but really the major corporations.  They control everything with their bucks.
69495
You have a point about oil revenues from Iraq paying for the war.  So far, production has not made this possible.  The government doesn't sell gas, oil companies do.  They sell their products at the price the market will bear, just like Home Depot, American Airlines, and Wendy's.  Exxon-Mobil made about 9.7 cents per dollar of revenue during their biggest quarter last year, which was their biggest quarter ever.  Want to know what your bank made?  Probably around 25 cents!! Wonder no more why interest rates are so low....the banks are pocketing the change, but you don't hear any uproar about that.   Oil companies typically make around 5.7 cents per dollar, lower than most industries.  If you want to live in a country that has price controls, try China, Cuba, or the former Soviet Union.  Didn't work out too well for them.
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Money recieved by the Federal government through taxation.