Quote Originally Posted by stratosjoe View Post
In fact the government takes about 42 cents on every gallon of gas sold and the typical oil company makes about seven cents. Do the math on that." - Jungle

ok that accounts for .49 where might the the other $3.70 be going?
Uhm...

Oil discovery, drilling, oil rig expenses, salary of oil rig employees, cost to transport crude to refineries, oil refinery expenses, salaries, power, fuel additives, administrative costs (gotta pay all of the employees, from clerks to receptionists to the CEO), markup to regional/local fuel distributor, cost to get fuel tankers from distributors to the local gas station, and at least 1000 other things I haven't even thought of...