🚀 go-pugleaf

Tony <"email<r>"@aalcom.com> writes:

>Do you people have any idea about how much of the price you pay at the pump is
>actually TAX... besides the subnote on your gas receipts for the HST there is
>pleny more that's hidden...
>Boycotting the oil companies won't really make that much difference...

>One of the killer facts regarding the gas taxes is... the tax was meant to be
>used for highway/road maintenance... the only problem is most of it's going
>into the provincial gov's general revenue and since the county of Halifax has
>become one happy community...it's my understanding that the province doesn't
>kick back any funding for road maintenance...(except for the 100 series
>highways which the province still tries to maintain.

>This is why Walter is looking to try and pick-up a little cash off each litre
>of gas sold in the Regional Munic.

>No slamming me please if I'm incorrect on any of this, as I'm not an expert on
>the way our great levels of government work, this is just my understanding of
>the way they take and spend just part of our hard earned money.. God love it!

You are correct...its what we've been talking about for the past 3+ weeks now,
welcome to the discussion :)




>Dave wrote:

>> >Boycotting gas for one day is plain stupid. The reason? The gas stations
>> >will save money. Since they know the boycott is coming they will bring in
>> >less staff that day and pay less in wages. Then you will still have to buy
>> >the same gas later on that week. What's the point of that?
>> >Marc G. Fournier wrote in message <7q7snb$2thr$1@hub.org>...
>> >>X-Newsreader: NN version 6.5.3 (NOV)
>>
>> 66 cents for a liter of fuel is a such rip off.  I wonder how much it
>> costs an oil company to produce a liter of gasoline.  What do you
>> think people? How much?  I dunno, but  if I guessed 10 cents/liter
>> would I be too lean and unfair to the oil companies  or would I be
>> exaggerating????
>> I don't see how we can boycott, what are we suppose to do... by
>> propane? How can we refuse buying a product that we are so dependant
>> on.  I wish I can put water in my car.  But I still haven't figured
>> out how to make it combustable.   I know PEI has a price ceiling on
>> gas, maybe instead of boycotting we should try to push the government
>> in passing  price regulations.   The States have cheeper prices for
>> fuel then us, how are they doing it?  (Oil Countries are probably
>> scared that USA would probably  bomb them if they descided to increase
>> the price on the gallon.)
>>
>> I do agree with everyone, I don't want furnance fuel to jump, we are
>> all already paying too much for everything as it is!



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