The Government, federal and state still makes more money on the gas purchased at the pump that the Oil Company who provides it. When you add the federal taxes and the local taxes above and beyond the excise taxes and couple it with all the various taxes the oil companies pay separate from actual production, and then add highway motor fuel taxes truckers pay, even if they bought no fuel in that state; I would still insist that the government takes the lion's share of the cost of the gas you pump into your tank.