From: "Gary Wiltshire" 

On Sun, 19 Mar 2006 20:28:27 -0500, Geo  wrote:

> "Gary Wiltshire"  wrote in message
> news:op.s6otb2tgeipai0{at}dsl40.bgtnvtpl.sover.net...
>
>>  From what I've read the margins on oil aren't out of line with the
> profits
>> on other kinds of products.  What should make anyone sit up and look is
>> that the taxes the feds and the states collect on each gallon DWARFS the
>> profit per gallon.
>
> That kinda depends on how you define profit doesn't it?
>
> Is "profit" what the gas station makes, what the refinery
makes, what the
> company who picks up the oil from the well down the street makes or what
> the
> farmer down the street gets for allowing the well on his land?
>
> If in my example there are 4 different entities making profit and in
> another
> example it's all controlled from ground to your gas tank by one company
> does
> that change your definition of "profit"?
>
> Geo.
>
>

How does that differ from the many, many people who make a profit on the
manufacture of an automobile or raising watermelons?

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Gary Wiltshire

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