Here is
age=&vpage=2" target=_blank rel="nofollow">his latest claim,
"There is about $2.30 environmental/dumbarse tax per gallon."
And, here is the response:
@TexINS: What are you talking about? There is not $2.30 of tax per gallon. And, the tax on the gallon of gas is largely a Republican thing. It doubled under Raegan. The tax went up under George Bush more than Clinton. The tax on the federal level is ONLY 18.4¢. The rest of the tax is imposed by Texas itself.Per wikipedia,
Fuel taxes in the United States vary by state. The United States federal excise tax on gasoline is 18.4 cents per gallon (4.86 ¢/L) and 24.4 cents per gallon (6.45 ¢/L) for diesel fuel. On average, as of April 2012, state and local taxes add 31.1 cents to gasoline and 30.2 cents to diesel for a total US average fuel tax of 49.5 cents per gallon for gas (13.07 ¢/L) and 54.6 cents per gallon for diesel (14.42 ¢/L).[11]The state and local tax figure includes fixed per gallon taxes as well as taxes that are a percentage of the sales price.
If you'd actually consider that much of our foreign military intervention is to secure fossil fuels the price of the fuel doesn't properly adjust to fund that intervention and is therefore undervalued. 4951