"Gene Kearns" wrote in message
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On Sat, 08 Apr 2006 11:44:17 GMT, Fred Dehl penned the following well
considered thoughts to the readers of rec.boats:


I'm not idiot enough to make statements like that without empirical
proof....

1. Go to the gas station.
2. Look at the sticker enumerating the taxes per gallon.
3. Go to finance.yahoo.com or download the pdf of the annual report of
the oil company of your choice.
4. Use a calculator to determine profit per gallon.

So, you make a loonie statement and I'm supposed to try to prove it to
myself. Says a lot about your credibility, right?

5. Admit I was right as usual.

And that says a lot more about your narcissism and the reason you post
such tripe... you only have to say it to make it true... right?

Fred Dehl: a legend in his own mind....

Besides, taxes aren't at issue. In NC, gasoline taxes pay for the
roads.

No, they pay for Jim Black's illegal slush funds.

And the NC Speaker of the House has... uh, what, to do with this? Are
you under the illusion that he somehow has a secret job with NCDOT?
You are a very confused person!


My problem is the windfall profits made by the petroleum companies
during a time of skyrocketing gasoline costs. In NC, the gasoline tax
is tied to the price of gasoline.... so the petro companies boost the
prices to make obscene profits and the tax increases accordingly....
both the fault and direct result of petro-greed.

Have you lobbied the legislature to change the law? Or are you a
beneficiary of Jim Black's illegal slush funds?

What ARE you talking about?

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OK, Exxon Mobil (xom) operating margin is 16 percent and profit margin is
11 percent. Gas wholesale is 2.16 (may delivery) so operating margin is
about 35 cents per gallon, if uniform across all products. didn't try
to verify that .

In Minnesota, 18.4 cents federal, and 22 cents state tax for a total of
40.4 cents per gallon.

That's the calculation. no name calling. took about 10 minutes tops.

In NC, state tax is more (17.5 +7% of wholesale) or about 30 cents.

del

"Gene Kearns" wrote in message
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On Mon, 17 Apr 2006 20:20:07 -0500, Del Cecchi penned the following
well considered thoughts to the readers of rec.boats:



In NC, state tax is more (17.5 +7% of wholesale) or about 30 cents.


And that may have something to do with the fact that NC has the second
largest number of miles of state built and maintained roads in the US.

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Grady-White Gulfstream, out of Oak Island, NC.

Homepage
http://myworkshop.idleplay.net/

So they spend the money on roads. What does that have to do with who
gets more off a gallon of gas, state+fed or exxon? I wasn't criticizing,
just throwing in another datapoint. Minnesota because I live here, and
NC because you do. You were the one that seemed to be disputing the
taxes profit assertion. Wasn't it you?

I like NC roads, btw.

del

"Fred Dehl" wrote in message
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Gene Kearns wrote in
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On Wed, 19 Apr 2006 22:34:53 GMT, Fred Dehl penned the following well
considered thoughts to the readers of rec.boats:

Gene Kearns wrote in
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On Mon, 17 Apr 2006 22:11:25 -0500, Del Cecchi penned the following
well considered thoughts to the readers of rec.boats:

You were the one that seemed to be disputing the
taxes profit assertion. Wasn't it you?

I do believe that taxes profit,

Despite the overwhelming evidence presented here and elsewhere to the
contrary.


In Germany and Holland there is an incredibly strong positive
relationship between the number of storks and the birthrate... thus,
to you, I am sure, this *proves* conclusively and beyond a shadow of a
doubt that babies are brought by storks.

Thus, your overwhelming evidence presented here proves conclusively
that the warming of the Martian atmosphere is caused by fuel taxes and
Jim Black and has nothing to do, whatsoever, with terrestrial SUVs.

Your incoherence just builds on itself, doesn't it? Suggestion: double
the medication.


Ah .... I love rec.boats. The entertainment value is simply priceless.

RCE