How much would gas cost without the inflation tax?

Question

O nevermind... found a graph:

http://www.randomuseless.info/gasprice/gasprice.html

Funny... "randomuseless".... hmm.... I guess we must keep it that way... </end joke>

Answer 1

Cost To Refine Crude Oil

To Retail Gas .48 Per Gal

http://www.rense.com/general76/cost.htm

Back in 1980 the cost to refine, distribute and retail gasoline, or the refiner/marketer margin, averaged about 99 cents per gallon (in inflation-adjusted terms).

  

By 1990 it averaged more than 63 cents per gallon, and by 2000 the margin had declined to 54 cents per gallon. It increased briefly in 2001 as a result of colder than normal weather over the 2000-2001 winter and supply disruptions due to pipeline outages and the introduction of new blends of gasoline as required under the Clean Air Act.

  

The refiner/marketer margin has since come down to an average of 48 cents per gallon in 2005.

  

http://www.api.org/Newsroom/testimony/se...

Answer 2

a lot less LOL in NY at least 63 cents less.