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Ok I talked to one of my buddies tonight down in Kansas who is a roughneck in the oil fields and is an executive mgr in the company. He told me that the government does not have anything to do with the pricing of oil that is opecs department, BUT he said our government has the decision on whether or not to open our own supplies from our ground thus then being able to set the price at a different pace bringing the price of oil down in which would turn around and lower our prices of gas per gallon. He also gave me a scenario which goes like this. Lets say our government recieves 10% tax off every gallon of gas sold at 3.00 a gallon which gives the government near .30 cents a gallon but now if gas was at 2.00 a gallon and the government still only recieved 10% they only get around .20 cents a gallon. So he said now do we all see where the government plays a role in the gas price game?
They are not going to push for us to open our oil supplies here stateside when they are making more money off us buying at higher prices.
I believe the Federal gas tax (18.5 cpg) is a flat fee not a percentage and the Minnesota state gas tax (20 cpg) is also a flat fee per gallon, so in Minnesota the state would not benefit from a higher price per gallon, it would actually be hurt because of less consumption.
I do agree that we should start opening up areas to start pumping our own oil.