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- Subject: Re: New Gasoline Ripoff
- Message-ID: <1994.88.uupcb@chaos.lrk.ar.us>
- From: dave.williams@chaos.lrk.ar.us (Dave Williams)
- Date: 6 Nov 92 10:03:00 GMT
- Reply-To: dave.williams@chaos.lrk.ar.us (Dave Williams)
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- -> You may be right, but this does not explain why before the alchol
- -> based fuels were REQUIRED, it usually cost several cents less.
- -> If it cost less before, why does it cost more now. I see it as
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- The gas at the pump is, in some areas, almost 40% tax over the base
- price of the fuel, once you add in the Federal, state, and local bites.
- It's possible they're only taxing the *gasoline* content and not the
- alcohol content. Depending on how the rates go, you'd come out cheaper
- by mixing more-expensive additives.
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