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Originally Posted by Texas Beta
Please do a more thorough search next time. Refineries on average make about 10 cents for every gallon sold. Refineries are at maximum production to compensate for the war and random natural events such as Katrina which shut down pipelines and ports.
The government makes 20 to 25 cents on every gallon of gasoline. Why don't you instead lobby your representatives to lower the tax? Why try to hurt an industry which employs hundreds of thousands of people world wide, an industry that puts billions of dollars into the American economy.
This is a perfect example of people following the crowd and not thinking for themselves.
Edit* I like how current your source is!
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As I indicated, up front, was a very quick down and dirty search.
And yes, I saw other sites-many of them from the Oil Companies.
Found this one from the DOE-2005 as well.
http://www.eia.doe.gov/bookshelf/bro...05primerM.html
Found this site which could be rather interesting go through:
http://www.oilwatchdog.org
And this:
http://www.consumerwatchdog.org/ener...t+Profiteering
http://www.consumerwatchdog.org/energy/rp/6775.pdf
And this one answers the question about the mini-marts:
http://www.wgal.com/news/9336051/detail.html