What's interesting from an economics point of view is that the difference
in tax is more than .12 cents, yet the difference at the pump is far less
than that. Which means that NY residents aren't paying the full tax. It
is shared between Seller and Buyer.
The consequences of this are, if there were a subsidy of say 10 cents, you
could expect the price of gas to fall say 5 cents and the Oil Companies and
OPEC to get richer by 5 cents a gallon.
Steve Ekstrand, Pasadena, CA Driver: '00 Dakota CC SLT+ 4.7L 3.92SG 255's
Stacey's Driver: '00 Inferno Red Intrepid ES-3.2L-24V Autostick w/Leather
Race Car: 69 1/2 Road Runner 440-6 (ex-NHRA SS/GA future B or C/SA???)
Project Car: 69 Barracuda Notchback (Orig. 318, now 360w/Edelbrock Heads)
Homepage: http://sites.netscape.net/professormopar/homepage
----- Original Message -----
From: "Andy Levy" <andylevy@bigfoot.com>
To: <dakota-truck@buffnet.net>
Sent: Sunday, March 05, 2000 12:14 PM
Subject: Re: DML: Gas Prices, name your own, WAS: Gas Out
| Last summer I went to south Jersey and the prices along the way were a
| little higher in the Poconos (there's NO easy way to Cape May from
| Syracuse, NY), and about 5-8 cents/gal cheaper in north/middle Jersey.
|
| The number of people who live close enough to NJ to make the trip
| worthwhile (speaking for NY residents in general, not DMLers) is
| incredibly small.
|
| Unless you loaded up the bed with a tank or tanks and picked up, say, 50
| gallons or more. But that brings its own set of problems; I don't know
| what the laws are on hauling that amount of flammable liquids with a
| "regular" truck, and if the price drops signifcantly afterwards, you've
| just blown a lot of money you didn't have to.
|
| "Steven T. Ekstrand" wrote:
| > If you're in NY you may be able to save .12 cents in taxes by crossing
the
| > border to Jersey. It would be interesting to see if the price
difference
| > is that much.
| >
| > Steve Ekstrand, Pasadena, CA Driver: '00 Dakota CC SLT+ 4.7L 3.92SG
255's
| > Stacey's Driver: '00 Inferno Red Intrepid ES-3.2L-24V Autostick
w/Leather
| > Race Car: 69 1/2 Road Runner 440-6 (ex-NHRA SS/GA future B or C/SA???)
| > Project Car: 69 Barracuda Notchback (Orig. 318, now 360w/Edelbrock
Heads)
| > Homepage: http://sites.netscape.net/professormopar/homepage
|
| --
| -andy
|
| http://home.twcny.rr.com/andylevy/ --- andylevy@bigfoot.com
| -----------------------------------------------------------
| Let's all get GNU'd together!
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