🚀 go-pugleaf

On Sun, 2 Jun 2002 15:04:49 -0400, "Daniel J. Stern"
<dastern@engin.umich> wrote:

>On Sat, 1 Jun 2002, DPH wrote:
>
>2> Is the concept of different fuel taxation in different states *really*
>2> this hard for *this* many people to grasp? No, c'mon, I'm being serious
>2> here: is it?
>
>> I find it difficult to believe that _anything_ in New Jersey is taxed
>> less than Virginia.
>
>That's as may be, but gasoline tax rates are neither controlled by, nor
>accurately described by, your "beliefs".

'Tis true.  NJ at 10.4 cents a gallon, Va was I think 17.5

But... Pennsylvania was 8 cents a gallon on the chart I saw.  Gas in
NJ less than Pa?   Probably.

>
>> NJ is a liberal, tax-and-spend, welfare, collect-up-all-the-guns
>> state.
>
>...with low gasoline taxes.

Yep.


>[the cheaper-brand stations]
>2> Buy cheap gasoline (usually batches that fail major-maker
>2> quality/purity checks), and water it down with alcohol.  No big
>2> mystery...
>
>> Speedway, my other favorite gas outlet in Indy, is doing that anyway.
>> Yet, this other bunch (wish I could remember their names) is cheaper.
>> You need to do better than that to explain it.
>
>Perhaps you just need to do better than that to understand it. I begin to
>think you're being deliberately thick here.  There are more than two
>grades of gasoline on the wholesale market; it's not just "good stuff"
>or "rotgut". THere are likewise multiple grades of alcohol. There are
>trucking companies that'll haul tankerloads for a skoshe less, with
>perhaps older trucks. There are fuel dispensing pumps that are older.
>There are fewer, dimmer lights above the pumps. There is a HIERARCHY here.
>Speedway is a chain; Jimmy-Joe's RR1 Gas Boutique is not.

Well, you have to be speculating here, because I didn't tell you the
other chain's name ('cuz I can't remember it.)  Whatever, I can't
believe that JUST the full-serve guys would build cheaper gas - so
cheap that it not only beats the competition, but by enough to be able
to pay for the supposedly expensive attendant, too.  It still don't
add up.

Dave Head

>
>--DS
>