Prices at the pump? Paul Morrison's comment (Clarion, April 6) hints at part of the problem. Of course the Oil Conglomerates are raising their profits, as well as retailers and tax authorities.
We who live on the Kenai have a bigger bite out of our pockets for all those reason as well as Fairbanks. The producers/processors price the fuel at the distribution point, Anchorage, and charge freight to the retailer. This is especially unfair in Fairbanks when most fuels are produced in North Pole but the are charged from Anchorage for transportation rates. We (Kenai Peninsula) have our own difficulties as we are robbed for transport as well as taxes. This borough taxes on the dollar amount (a sales tax for the general fund) rather than a quantity tax (per gallon). Several years ago the "borough" was challenged as to this tax, at that time the tax folks put out that "they had no way to figure a rate by the gallon so they just use a sales tax on the amount" (not verbatim). So when people in Anchorage pay, say $4/gallon, we pay that plus transportation plus borough sales tax that in a nut shell is why we pay more.
This borough, to my knowledge, is the only government that does not tax fuel on a quantity basis or specifically designate the tax for roads as do most tax authorities. Guess they get enough taxes for the roads because we are charged additional taxes/fees on our vehicles for registering within the Kenai Borough. With so many hands in the cookie jar that want their share it is no wonder the price of fuel has gone so high. Will the borough be sympathetic to these concerns? I don't think so, these are the same folks who raise their own salaries as they wish and just raise a mil rate or charge a fee to make up the difference. Ever wonder why diesel prices are so much higher than gasoline? Most using diesel are commercial trucking and they write the cost off on their taxes as an expense of transporting, the oil companies get more and the transporters write it off, who pays? We do, because governments not only subsidize them, we pay higher prices so they can have even more.
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Add commentAlso the same folks that
Also the same folks that charge the highest rates for any medical at CPGH or the many outpatient clinics all so owned by the Borough. When the MONEU-opolizers get their hands in that cookie jar, OUR wallets, it's hard to break them of their Very Bad Habits. But it can be done if We the People would just decide to REELECT NO ONE.
Fuel prices are gonna continue to skyrocket beyond manies means to afford enough fuel to get to work, that is if you have a job to go to, let alone the costs for all other things needed to survive daily life as the controlers keep regulating oil and actually restricting it's production.
Jeremiah 6:17
hmm
maybe more people should have voted for Fred. as he would have been more frugal with OUR money. let the flame wars begin !
akal i agree and one would
akal i agree and one would think that from our first go round with Navarre we would learn and turn out to vote down the far lefts Money-opolizer leader when he ran again.
Reelect no one, really applies in this case, if only we would have used our heads to save our bread and voted for Fred, ah? Maybe next time people will realize that when you sit on your hands and allow this repeat actions to occur time after time by the far left then we become just as much to blame as the far left for the results. Very Sloooooooooow learners.
Jeremiah 6:17
$.91 cents per gallon
Give this one some thought the next time You are being Gouged at the Local Gas Station. $ 4.50 + per gallon
Saudi Arabia $.91 cents per gallon of gasoline
& the Saudi Royal Family is Laughing All the Way to the Bank.
Saudi Oil $Profits$ $274 Billion Dollars !$
They just built a extremely remote Refinery in the middle of a Desert, move millions of qubic yards of Desert Sand then added a PipeLine 100's of miles long & get this ! It's All PAID FOR ! No Bonds or long term Loans are needed in Saudi Arabia. They Pay CASH up front.
Exxon, B P & Conoco aren't even in the same league as Saudi Arabia, Not even in the Top 10 Producers world wide.
Now they are investing in Solar Power & Battery Technology & planning for the future with Electric Vehicles.
Planning for the Future being the focus of that statement.
The Saudi Oil Sheiks are Laughing All the Way to the Bank.
SPW "Airborne"
It's all gonna be OK now, the
It's all gonna be OK now, the Big Oil got a 30% petroleum jelly incentive to not have a going out of business sale on Alaska oil, thanks to our elected officials in Whoooknew.
That pipe line will be overflowing from now on from OUR depleted oil fields up north and probably even here in Cook Inlet due to this good news for Big Oil.
More outside labor will be needed as well so many of us Alaskans may need to move outside so we can work here at home for Big Oil.
Jeremiah 6:17
spwrong...Meanwhile, back at the ranch...
We have YOUR obama-[filtered word] who is jockeying to eliminate domestic oil production, signing over bridge and road construction contracts to China, compromising our missle defense system with the Russians and imposing an obamacare communistic health care program that is in violation of our American Constitution (he doesn't care though, because he was born in Kenya). Kind of reminds me of OJ Simpson! The truth will come out, matter of time!
obamas crack-induced thinking is that we will all be able to use green energy from a jar of mog-moss. All the while his ISLAM Kings (who he bows to) continue to rake in billions of YOUR dollars!
You crack me up, it is so funny how screaming liberals (such as yourself) complain about the current economic situation..while at the at the same time endorse a president who is creating the problem. It is unfortunate that Conservative Law abiding citizens have to pay so dearly at the pumps because the liberal elected a moron you voted for.
As for Liberals paying at the pumps? I hope you bastards pay DEARLY! May you eat Top Ramen and your credit cards me maxed out on interest, while the taxes eat you alive!
Wake up spwright...lets move forward! Stop thinking in such a sloooooooooow shallow liberal way! Get on board dude! Be a winner! Vote Conservative!