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Originally Posted by Ben Franklin
$15 billion in subsidies to the oil industry. 38 cents a gallon in Florida taxes and 18 cents per gallon in federal tax. You were saying...
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That’s a gross underestimate. Think about how many
trillions of dollars we have spent to protect and control the oil fields in the Middle East. Oil has been heavily subsidized for generations. If we paid the real cost of gas at the pump, the price would be double digits.