Gasoline Question

[Guest SUNTZU]

Federal tax on gas is 18.4 cents a gallon.

Gas usage =378,000,000 gallons per day

137970000000 gallons per year

$25,386,480,000.00 in taxes.

Estimated receipts for fiscal year 2010 are $2.381 trillion, an estimated decrease of 11% from 2009.

The Department of Defense uses 4,600,000,000 US gallons (1.7×1010 L) (4.6 billion gallons) of fuel annually, an average of 12,600,000 US gallons (48,000,000 L) (12.6 million gallons) of fuel per day.

So even if you quarter the number of the 25.38 trillion dollars to cover federal and state government agencies that don't pay the tax, there is still several trillion dollars left over from gas taxes alone. Where da money go? Or can someone explain it in better detail to me?

[Guest JRules]

Umm pretty sure $25,386,480,000 is 25 billion not trillion...

[saintsfanbrian]

And the government doesn't pay taxes on gas. They don't pay taxes on anything.

[Guest SUNTZU]

Umm pretty sure $25,386,480,000 is 25 billion not trillion...

LOL.

:D

And the government doesn't pay taxes on gas. They don't pay taxes on anything.

Yep.

[kb4ns]

[Guest SUNTZU]

Exactly. These aren't the droids you are looking for, move along.

Edited May 17, 2010 by SUNTZU

[strickj]

Math - it isn't for everybody!

[kb4ns]

Math - it isn't for everybody!

Wow. I'm suddenly in the mood to study...

[Guest jackdm3]

... human anatomy?

[Guest SUNTZU]

...or prison bars...

[kb4ns]

...or prison bars...

That looks like a law school library they're in. At least that's what I'm telling myself.

[BryanP]

Gas taxes are used to build and maintain bridges and the federal highway systems.

[Guest manofsteel]

toilet seats and hammers. we got to have more toilet seats and hammers:panic:

[Chief07]

Umm pretty sure $25,386,480,000 is 25 billion not trillion...

Billion or trillion or quaddrillion, (don't tell Obama quadrillion is after trillion) Government can't stop wasting our tax dollars.

[strickj]

That looks like a law school library they're in. At least that's what I'm telling myself.

I've never seen a HS girl read.

It has to be college girls...

[kb4ns]

I've never seen a HS girl read.

Most of the high school students in the Memphis City Schools system can't read.

[Volzfan]

Where da money go?

Pelosi burns thru a lot of it in this...

[Guest jackdm3]

I'm not sure how much this really gets used, but how can you not use this a feel shamed?

Maybe TGO's flyboys can find us that info.

[kb4ns]

I'm not sure how much this really gets used

I thought I read somewhere that it was at least weekly to back and forth between DC and CA.

I agree, though. Shame, shame. Especially coming from the state with the most "green" morons.