Gasoline+tax in usa

What's the price for gasoline/diesel in the the states now(and what's the tax)

In Norway the price for reg. gas is approx. (1gallon) 7,50$, and diesel

7,38$

The tax here is about 80% of the price. Damn this car-hating-country :-)("the last communist-state in the west" as a Swedish council once said :-)

/L.S

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Adam Frazier

in raleigh north carolina gas prices range from 2.76 -3.05 a gallon, and i think our tax is like 27 cents on the gallon

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Charles H.

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jimbob

I was in Maui, Hawaii last week. $3.67.

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daddy

Here in central Iowa, USA it's 2.61 per gallon for ethanol and 6 cent for reg unleaded 87 octane. Doug

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Doug aka Skippy

Here in Northern Virginia, prices range from $2.95 to $3.25 depending on where you stop... Tax is like $0.37 per gallon, and 80% of the price is corporate greed by the oil companies.

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websurfer

Totally agree with the greed part! In Mena, AR reg unleaded is $2.57/gal in most places. Earlier this week southern MO was $.30/gal cheaper than AR. Must be a tax thing.......

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Al

In NE Wisconsin (GBay) the pump price for regular gas is about $2.75 per

gallon... It was $3.00 per gallon 3 weeks ago...

Included in the $2.75 per gallon is both State & Federal Tax....

State fuel tax in Wisc. is about 0.32 cents per gallon...

Federal fuel tax is about 0.22 cents per gallon...

The 'Good' news about both the Fed & State Taxes is they are NOT

General Tax revenues... But are set aside for New Roads, Road repairs,

Police patrol expenses, both for Bicycle & Snowmobile trails, and for

some Airport expenses....

In a fiscal emergency... The Politicians can transfer or loan monies

for other Government expenses... The flavor of the Gas Tax money

distributions is: If you burn gasoline in your 'equipment', these tax

monies will be spent 90% of the time on gasoline consuming projects...

I do not keep track of Diesel prices... But the Railroads & Truckers

sure do.....

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David Johnson

I saw gas for $2.53 to 2.73 and diesel for $3.38 today here in North Texas.

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Silverado

Here's an interesting article about gasoline and pricing. I still believe that environmentalists play a huge role in the energy picture.

Who's really to blame for $3-a-gallon gas? =A0 It's easy to get mad at the big oil companies, but the real story is far more complex. Here's the story behind the story, plus four energy sector picks. By Jon D. Markman =A0 =A0 Gasoline costs a lot in the U.S. today, so it just feels like a good idea to blame the big oil companies with accusations of "gouging" and "windfall profits." But like most high-octane emotional reactions, this one is wrong, as you'd need to breach every tenet of capitalism to lay all the fault at the oil giants' feet. =A0=A0And even if you still think they deserve a touch of anger, as investors you're better off joining them than fighting them. =A0 =A0 The reason that gasoline costs $1 or more per gallon today than a year ago is simple: Hurricane Katrina kicked our supply lines down a crooked staircase, and a painful kink emerged in the commodity's complex worldwide distribution system. Although it seems unfair at times, it's a fundamental principle of our great economic system that the most efficient way to allocate a scarce resource is through price. When there isn't enough of something valuable to go around -- whether it's caviar, Manhattan property or reliable home-run hitters -- in a market society we let the item go to the highest bidder. This is eBay 101. =A0 =A0 In the case of gasoline, many consumers do not seem to yet grasp the difference between crude oil, the price of which is declining of late, and the stuff that they pump into their car, which is getting more expensive. One is the raw material, while the other is a finished good.=A0 It's the difference between the price of raw cotton and an Armani T-shirt. You wouldn't expect a sharp cut in prices at Bloomingdale's just because cotton futures prices fell, and neither should you expect a 1:1 change in the relationship between oil prices and gas prices. =A0 =A0 The Shell game Moreover, many don't seem to grasp the difference between the large, vertically integrated companies (such as Royal Dutch Petroleum (RD, news, msgs), which is the parent group of Shell) that are net buyers of oil in a hypercompetitive arena at prices that fluctuate on a world scale and the corner gasoline station that is a net seller of gasoline at prices set at whatever the market will bear on a local scale. =A0 =A0 The confusion largely comes from the fact that neighborhood filling stations typically obtain marketing support from oil giants in exchange for a promise to buy a certain percentage of their products. The station owner then plasters the giant's name all over his business as an advertising ploy. While it might look as if the corner station that's boosted its unleaded price to $3.50 is owned by Royal Dutch because all the garish yellow signage says "Shell," in fact the business is more likely owned by an independent entrepreneur who lives down the street.=A0 The oil companies themselves control very few gas stations anymore. The "gougers," if there are any, are thus not the oil companies but local guys who are exploiting a short-term supply disruption to make some extra profits in a generally low-margin business. =A0Stations generally make more money on their convenience store beer and Twinkies than on unleaded. =A0 =A0 Crude, crude everywhere, but. Right now there is plenty of crude oil in the world's pipeline, but a scarcity of gasoline. Katrina knocked a considerable amount of crude-oil production out of commission in the Gulf of Mexico, to be sure. But as a gesture of goodwill, and to make a buck, our allies in the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries, such as Saudi Arabia and Kuwait, agreed to produce more than their usual allotments to keep world reserves stable. At the same time, the U.S. government agreed to release tens of millions of barrels of crude oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, an energy piggy bank started 30 years ago after the Yom Kippur War between Israel and its Arab neighbors disrupted supply. =A0 =A0 You can have all the oil in the world and still run short of gasoline, however, if major refineries are out of action. Refineries are large, smelly, unattractive plants that "crack" crude oil's hydrocarbons into the stuff that makes modern life go, such as heating oil, kerosene, jet fuel, the feedstock for plastics, diesel and automotive gasoline. Few U.S. states have ever wanted these noxious beasts on their coastlines, so the ones built in loosely regulated Louisiana half a century ago make something like half of all the refined crude oil products in the country. When Katrina blasted through, her high winds and storm surge knocked these plants for a loop, and the partial shutdown caused 10% of the nation's entire supply of gasoline to vanish in a weekend. =A0 =A0 Many medium-sized refiners, such as Tesoro (TSO, news, msgs), do own a lot of their own gas stations. They make much of their profit on what the industry calls the "crack spread." That's the difference in the price between what the refiner pays for crude oil and the price it receives for the products it cracks those hydrocarbon molecules into.=A0 Because environmentalists have made it so difficult for refiners to grow, the industry consolidated mightily to gain economies of scale. In a tight supply environment, the nation's few remaining refiners naturally hoard refined product for their own stations first -- and then wholesale the rest to the highest bidder both to distributors and individual station owners. =A0 =A0 Because there are a lot of sophisticated buyers at wholesale, prices settle at an equilibrium that reflects the cost of production plus a small premium demanded by a dislocated supply. Once the winning bidder ships the gasoline home to his station in East Crawdad, Ala., however, he may have no competitors for his product and can charge a price that reflects local demand plus a premium that reflects area residents' unwillingness to travel farther for a lower price. So even though the Alabama station might have received free signage from Shell, the oil giant has virtually no say, and gains nothing, from potentially outrageous local price hikes. =A0 =A0 Rather than just getting mad at the local station owner, motorists can either blow his nefarious scheme by finding local gasoline in more competitive markets -- or join him, to some extent, by becoming an energy industry stakeholder. =A0 =A0 Light, sweet revenge Strangely enough, despite energy companies' explosive move in the stock market over the past two years, many of the shares are still very cheap. This has happened because unlike, say, a retailer, a commodity-based business can decide to sell some or all of its product in the futures market at a set price for a certain length of time. A couple of years ago, many oil producers were delighted to be able to sell two full years of production at $30-$35. That looked like a good idea at the time, and allowed them to make a lot of money if their production costs were closer to $10. But those old hedges are expiring, and companies can now turn around and sell their current and future production for $60 to $70 even though their production costs are still a fraction of that.Hurricane Katrina =A0 =A0 =A0 Analyst earnings estimates for oil and gas exploration companies have not kept pace with the rising cost of the commodity, so a lot of premium companies are selling at forward-looking price-earnings multiples of 15 or less, despite earnings-growth rates that are likely to be north of

25% a year. A good example is Plains Exploration & Production (PXP, news, msgs). Analysts figure it will earn $4.06 in 2006, once its two-year-old hedges roll off, which amounts to annualized growth of 125%. Yet at today's price, its P/E multiple on 2006 earnings is just 9. =A0 =A0 David Anderson, portfolio manager at Palo Alto Investors in California, notes that Plains has told investors that it will produce about 65,000 barrels a day in 2006, and that because of hedging it'll probably earn no less than $55 per barrel. Anderson figures that, netting out costs, Plains will actually earn $5 in 2006, so it is trading at a forward P/E of 7 today. If oil stays in the $65-to-$70 range, that P/E is actually more like 5. Yet even if oil falls all the way back to $40 per barrel, Anderson says, the P/E is still at 10, which is cheap. =A0 =A0 Three other energy exploration companies with valuation and forward prospects profiles similar to Plains, according to Anderson, are ATP Oil & Gas (ATPG, news, msgs), Toreador Resources (TRGL, news, msgs) and Range Resources (RRC, news, msgs). All are based in Texas, but they have operations ranging from the Appalachians to France, the North Sea, Hungary and Turkey. If the next couple of years go as expected, you could get crude revenge on the suspected gougers by putting $100 into these stocks for every $10 you think you're overpaying for at the pump. =A0 =A0 Jon D. Markman is publisher of StockTactics Advisor, an independent weekly investment newsletter, as well as senior strategist and portfolio manager at Greenbook Investment Management. While he cannot provide personalized investment advice or recommendations, he welcomes column critiques and comments at snipped-for-privacy@gmail.com; put COMMENT in the subject line. At the time of publication, Markman did not own or control any securities mentioned in this column.

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