What are we paying in taxes for gas in Maryland, Virginia and D.C.? The American Petroleum Institute helped us with this answer:
- In every state, a federal tax is applied to gasoline purchases. This federal tax is 18.4 cents per gallon. - Then, each state adds an additional tax on top of that. - In Maryland, there is a 23.5 cents per gallon state tax bringing the total tax to about 42 cents per gallon D.C. has the same gas tax as Maryland. - In Virginia, there’s a 19.7 cents per gallon state tax and the total tax is about 38 cents per gallon. - By comparison, the national gas tax average is about 48 cents per gallon. This means we are still paying less than most of the rest of the country.
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And people complain loudly when the companies that take the risk to find, drill, refine, transport, and retail that gasoline earn 4.0 cents per gallon profit.
ReplyDeleteSounds like a good reason to raise our taxes on gas.NOT! Just because we don't pay as much as everybody else. How about not paying for/subsidizing illegal aliens tuition for in state colleges.That would be to much like right I guess.
ReplyDeleteThere we go with the "we still pay less than...". It doesn't matter that we pay less. The wages are less here too.
ReplyDeleteAll areas are not the same, period.
This is as stupid as those who say, well we pay more for a gallon of milk than we do gas.
Yes, we do and there are reasons for that but I drink much less milk than I burn in gas! duh!
Let's see.....poor gas companies make record profits in the tens of BILLIONs per quarter--- per quarter!! And we have (employees?) people bemoaning the fact that its ONLY 4 cents per gallon profit? And keep in mind, thats AFTER they account for the expenses of "finding, drilling, transporting, etc". Our governments, on the other hand, take 40 cents per gallon. And want more. Keep voting. The people we elect are SURELY looking out for themselves, er, uh, I mean US. Yeah. Thats the ticket. Us. Their looking out for us.
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