Comments on: Electric cars: It’s time to put our foot down …on the accelerator http://blog.nwf.org/2012/03/electric-cars-its-time-to-put-our-foot-down-on-the-accelerator/ The National Wildlife Federation's blog Sat, 18 May 2013 23:47:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: ZLipman http://blog.nwf.org/2012/03/electric-cars-its-time-to-put-our-foot-down-on-the-accelerator/comment-page-1/#comment-13659 ZLipman Fri, 06 Apr 2012 13:12:00 +0000 http://blog.nwf.org/?p=51334#comment-13659 Actually, the other 2-3 dollars is the price of crude
oil.  West Texas Intermediate Crude at
Cushing today at $103 per barrel.  http://www.bloomberg.com/energy/ There
are 42 gallons in a barrel = $2.45 gallon – that’s  before refining , pipeline fees, etc. 

 

Federal taxes are 18.5 cents per gallon – and go to pay for
roads, bridges and other transportation infrastructure

 

You may also like this article “Where all that gas money of yours
is going” that draws on analysis from the oil industry:  http://www.bankrate.com/finance/auto/gas-money.aspx

 

]]> By: Globalwarming is fake http://blog.nwf.org/2012/03/electric-cars-its-time-to-put-our-foot-down-on-the-accelerator/comment-page-1/#comment-13653 Globalwarming is fake Fri, 06 Apr 2012 01:55:00 +0000 http://blog.nwf.org/?p=51334#comment-13653 The only reason gas is going up in price is that Chairman Obamow regulates how much the oil companys drilling and he taxes them to death

Facts

oil commpanys profit from each gallon of gas sale

10-66 cents oil co’s profit
2-18 cents gas station profit
2-3 dollars goverment profit

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