Re: Websites for preview of 2009 Wrangler?

Will Honea <whonea@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

> XS11E wrote:

>> Federal tax began in 1932 apparently.
> 
> I must be thinking of the tax Eisenhower got through to pay for
> the interstate system.  Am I engaging in selective memory, or did
> $0.25 to $0.30 gas persist into the later '60s?

I really don't know and I'm too lazy to look it up.  I do know the tax 
on gas has increased over and over and over...

> 
> Time for liars, damned liars and statistics:  determine the
> marginal profit per gallon for both the major oil companies and
> retail sellers now and in 1965 - 

Retail sellers = unchanged.  We took the wholesale price of gas and 
added our markup, usually 3 cents/gallon on regular, and that's been 
the profit from the 1980s through as recent as I was in the business or 
knew anyone who was.



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