A state you or anyone else on this board wouldn't want to live in. That's all I'll say. I don't want to reveal too much about myself on the internet.
I’m going to guess California or New York. That's purely based on my own political preferences and bias'.
Why do you hold the opinion that collusion is the logical reason behind why you are paying more for fuel then I? You may be able to call the fuel pumping, refining, shipping and distributing system an oligopoly, but that still doesn’t account for why you should pay higher fuel prices then I am.
Examining this from a rational point of view, there must be some difference in the localities in which we live. In about 5 minutes of investigating, I turned up
this little gem:
New York State has the highest gasoline taxes in the nation at approximately 62.9 cents per gallon, including both state and federal taxes. That’s 2.8 cents more than Hawaii’s tax burden (60.1 cents/gallon) and 2.9 cents more than California’s—the third-runner-up (60.0 cents/gallon).
Assuming you live in CA, HI, or NY; you are paying higher fuel prices then me not because of collusion; not because the free, capitalistic market has failed you – but because of government taxation.
Enjoy it! You are paying for, and thus theoretically receiving, more and better socialized services due to the fact that you pay per capita far more then I on fuel taxes, but also likely have a higher population density.
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Am I way, way off in my judgment of what state you live in?
