"Jay Honeck" wrote in message
oups.com...
Not to degenerate this to a political argument, but numerous studies have
been
done to determine the "true" price of gasoline in the U.S.... not what
the pump price
is. The studies vary, but usually it adds an additional $2-$6/gallon
that we pay for
the fuel, only indirectly through other taxes.

Could you expand on that, please?
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He may be referring to THIS report:

http://209.200.74.155/doc/Real%20Pri...20Gasoline.pdf

from the US-based "International Center for Technology Assessment".

It was done way back 1998 or 2000, I believe, and concluded the "true" price
could be from around 4.60 (then), up to more than $14 a gallon... and that
the consumer was shielded from this in various ways.