(09-25-2026 02:56 PM)ODU BBALL Wrote:  

(09-25-2026 01:37 PM)Redwingtom Wrote:  

(09-25-2026 10:47 AM)ODU BBALL Wrote:  Tom, why do you continually play ignorant? Everybody everywhere, or certainly most everybody everywhere has taxes added to their gasoline price. That is all included in the price that we and others around the world pay at the pump. As you can see, AMERICA - with the exception of the poorly run state of California as noted above - pay less than most anybody else globally.

Do you know how percentages work?

Per AI:

Quote:As of September 2026, the retail price of gasoline (Euro 95) in Denmark averages approximately $2.90 to $3.00 per liter (which translates to roughly $11.00 to $11.37 per US gallon).

Out of this price, total taxes account for about 59.3% of the total cost, meaning drivers pay roughly $1.72 to $1.78 in total taxes per liter (~$6.50 to $6.74 per gallon).

NOBODY IN AMERICA IS PAYING $6.50+ PER GALLON IN TAXES, FFS!

Californians currently pay 81.8 cents per gallon.

And many other countries far outpace California too.

Quote:Top Countries for Gasoline Taxes
The Netherlands: ~$3.69 per gallon (€0.82/liter), driven by high excise and carbon components.

Italy: ~$3.26 per gallon (€0.73/liter), ranking second in Europe with heavy excise duties.

Finland: ~$3.24 per gallon (€0.72/liter), which explicitly builds environmental and CO2 costs into its fuel structure.

Israel: Over $3.00 per gallon in specific regulatory excise taxes, with total taxes regularly accounting for roughly half of the total cost at the pump.

You're out of your depth here, have a seat.

Do you know how paying at the pump works?

When people drive into the gas station, pump the gas into their car, and pay the bill, it really doesn't matter at all to him/her how the price came to be, only that it is.

Everyone (like you) is simply sky screaming about the price of gas. That to the public is the price posted on the pump. If the poorly run state of California (for example) wants to add a $5.00 surcharge to the price of the gas as they got it and pass that along to the consumer, then that is the price YOU would pay in California.

Bottom line is, if $4.00 per gallon at the pump is too high for people to tolerate then so be it. That would be a comparison from a previous time when they were paying just $3.00 per gallon at the pump. NOBODY cares about how that price came to be (state taxes, federal taxes, shortages, etc.), only that it did.

Also, I'm quite sure that the people in other countries that have to pay even more for their own gasoline than we do only care about the bottom line as well. Is that so difficult of a concept for you to grasp? Never mind, I already know the answer to that.

You're ALWAYS out of your depth here LeftwingTom, but yet here you constantly are. Have a seat yourself.

So now the current excuse is 'high prices are high prices, no one cares how the high prices came about, so dont look at one single person shutting 20% of the supply of the worlds oil off all by his lonesome at all.'

Neat stuff. hey, its just high. Dont bother to ask why. Lolz.