[Vwdiesel] Liters per US gallon--Fuel prices

[David Cook]

Here in the US, the Government makes 10 times what the
oil companies do on the sale of gasoline.  (Taxes, of
course.)

The profits of the oil companies, percentage wise, are
right on line with the national average of all
companies.  (7% for the oil companies vs. 6.8%
average.)  Coke, for example, makes about 20% profit. 


So, if we drank as much Coke as we used gasoline, not
only would we all be very very fat, but Coke would
make something like 1200 Billion dollars.  Nobody
gripes about that.

The oil companie's profits are high simply because we
use a whole lot of their product.  

So, I don't think that we are being robbed by the oil
companies, but instead being robbed by the freakin'
government.  

Finally, that is the major problem with fuel prices in
Europe.  A very very large chunk of that is because of
taxes imposed by their nearly socialistic
governements.

David


--- William J Toensing <toensing at theunion.net> wrote:

> There are about 3.785 liters per US gallon. Since
> the Canadian dollar is now worth .90 cents US, this
> would equate to a price of about $3.41 USD if the
> Cdn price is $1 per liter Cdn. Here in Calif. the
> price of gas is well over $3 a gallon. I had to pay
> $3.15 a gallon last night & I presume the next time,
> prices will be higher, on their way to $4 a gallon.
> In some remote parts of Calif., they already are.
> Still waiting to hear from Europe. 

David Cook
Red '86 Cabriolet Diesel Powered
Red '90 g60 Corrado 
Brown and White '78 Westy Campmobile "Bear"
and others in various states of disrepair
Pictures here: community.webshots.com/user/superdave5599

__________________________________________________
Do You Yahoo!?
Tired of spam?  Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around 
http://mail.yahoo.com