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Re: Gasoline prices (was: Re: Conversation w/ a LEGO Rep)
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Tue, 24 Aug 1999 15:09:11 GMT
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On Tue, 24 Aug 1999 05:30:13 GMT, lehman@javanet.com (Todd Lehman) wrote:

That's incredible!  (That there's such a difference depending on where you
live, even in the U.S.)  Why is it so expensive in California?  (I know, I
know, everything's expensive in California.  :-)  But it's so much closer to
the Alaskan pipeline.  Where does most of our oil come from these days?

A lot of the price difference depends on the taxes built into gasoline.  We
pay a bunch of taxes on our gas.  I think a rough figure is 30% of the
price of gas is actually taxes.

Steve



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  Re: Gasoline prices (was: Re: Conversation w/ a LEGO Rep)
 
30%, I thought it was 50%! Scott S. eve (25 years ago, 24-Aug-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)

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  Re: Gasoline prices (was: Re: Conversation w/ a LEGO Rep)
 
(...) Anywhere, everywhere -- prices are different depending on where you are, but on the whole, the prices of gas have gone up less than everything else has -- just like LEGO. So the prices of gas and LEGO have actually gone *down* considerably in (...) (25 years ago, 24-Aug-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)

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