Three Word Post Whore's Delight

[zad0030]

Yes, I know:
While the average gas price nationwide passed $4 last weekend, Missouri could boast of prices around $3.825, the cheapest in the country. How come the Show Me State has the lowest gas prices?

Taxes, pipelines, and ethanol. State gas taxes—which are assessed on top of the federal rate of 18.4 cents per gallon—tend to get the most attention in comparisons of fuel prices across states. At 17.6 cents per gallon, Missouri's gas taxes are low, but they aren't quite as low as some other states'. New Jersey, for example, takes just 14.5 cents per gallon, but its prices remain more expensive than Missouri's. (The Garden State's ban on self-service pumps adds an estimated nickel or so per gallon to the retail price.)

In Missouri, geography helps keep prices low. The state doesn't have any oil refineries, and its share of U.S. crude oil production is so small that the Department of Energy reports it as 0 percent. But because of its proximity to Texas, Oklahoma, and the Gulf Coast states, Missouri is crisscrossed by some of the nation's larger pipelines. Oil barges also pass through the state on the Mississippi and Missouri rivers. Proximity to producers reduces transportation costs a little, but it also makes Missouri less susceptible to price spikes when individual refineries run into problems.

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[sparky216]

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[sparky216]

man what's up with the weather in Iowa???

[sparky216]

We need to stop giving our money to foreign aid, and start updating/upgrading our own dam infrastructure.....

[CP3]

still cant find the dang fuse I blew

[da.bell]

We should have never gone into war.. $2.7 Billion in war costs.

Yes, probably made a better world but come on........

[da.bell]

still cant find the dang fuse I blew

See if the wiring diagram that Matt just put up will work

[zad0030]

I blame george W

[sparky216]

I blame george W

ok.....I blame fanatic/religious/nuts that like to terrorize people, GW, Congress, and muslims......

[da.bell]

I don't blame him at all. But $2.7 Billion in war funds could have helped the economy get out of what we are in today.

[sparky216]

still cant find the dang fuse I blew

I wasn't online when you started talking about this, but are you sure you blew a fuse?

[da.bell]

I wasn't online when you started talking about this, but are you sure you blew a fuse?

[zad0030]

What is wrong with your boat

[sparky216]

?

[CP3]

I wasn't online when you started talking about this, but are you sure you blew a fuse?

or a circuit breaker......