National Average Price of Gasoline Hits an All-Time High

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Vol Main said:
The same right wing mopes who complain about current gas prices with blame directed at President Biden will howl socialism if President Biden acts to curb the price gouging. Too many Republican politicians are short on integrity while their voters lack the common sense God gave a goose
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There is about 370M gallons consumed each day in America.
370M x (.15 + .183) = 123M per day in taxes
370M x (.244 + .67) = 338M per day in taxes

Between 123M -338M is paid in fed and state taxes every day on gasoline.

About 45B to 123.4B every year.
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McDad said:
When Democrats are looking at tax rates, the percentage matters. The amount the wealthy pays doesn't. When looking at profit of gas companies, the percentage doesn't matter but the amount they make does.
Hypocrisy. (which BB85 is really upset about in another thread).
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We need to stop with this. Our government overlords have proven to be more judicious in budgeting, choosing the appropriate way to distribute our tax dollars, and the perfect adjudicator on what's right an wrong. We should give it all to them, patiently wait, and be thankful for whatever they deem appropriate for us to keep.
 
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Matt2496 said:
I’m an electrical engineer and I work from home ~60% of the time. My position is very much needed lol.

With technology, there’s virtually nothing you can do in person that you can’t do from home.
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I had a small group of engineers, and our job was to diagnose problems in nuclear plants. We definitely had to be in the plant for testing, and due to the complexity of the data analysis, back in our lab for analysis. However, writing test reports and a some of the other work could be done anywhere. We always had a huge amount of overtime because of the nature of the job, so we'd still have had a lot of time in a plant or in the office. I'm not sure about teleconferences because you really do have to get out the crayons for some of the people who think they need in on what you found. Overall though working from home makes a lot of sense - I absolutely hated the commute - more than even trying to deal with some of the people whose job it seems was nothing more than making your job harder.
 
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Vol Main said:
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Do you expect interest on your investments to be a percentage of what you have invested or some fixed amout regardless of your investment? If cost of materials and labor go up then a business's costs go up; therefore, profits will go up too because that's the way return on investment works. Unless you think business should cover those incremental costs for nothing. One little hint: energy costs are more destructive to the economy than other inputs ... even if you really get crazy with taxes. Government policy usually sets the tone for energy cost - some things just happen to run up energy cost, but not usually. This clown administration came looking for a fight with energy producers, and you are paying for it with everything you buy and every breath you take. Choose better next time.
 
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Matt2496 said:
I’m an electrical engineer and I work from home ~60% of the time. My position is very much needed lol.

With technology, there’s virtually nothing you can do in person that you can’t do from home.
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My last few years of work, I ended up troubleshooting equipment more and more because the company got rid or everyone that knew anything. You can do some of that from home, sure, but you can also kill someone from home if you're not there where you have several control monitors and CCTV's.
 
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I had a small group of engineers, and our job was to diagnose problems in nuclear plants. We definitely had to be in the plant for testing, and due to the complexity of the data analysis, back in our lab for analysis. However, writing test reports and a some of the other work could be done anywhere. We always had a huge amount of overtime because of the nature of the job, so we'd still have had a lot of time in a plant or in the office. I'm not sure about teleconferences because you really do have to get out the crayons for some of the people who think they need in on what you found. Overall though working from home makes a lot of sense - I absolutely hated the commute - more than even trying to deal with some of the people whose job it seems was nothing more than making your job harder.
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Our field isn’t conducive to total remote work but as you point out there are phases which can be done nearly anywhere. The key is for people at least in our field to be honest when they NEED to be on site and when they can work anywhere.

My idiot company finally stopped dictating a one size fits all work environment and empowered dept mgrs to handle their needs accordingly. I was shocked but honestly at the rate we’re losing people they are willing to try anything.
 
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NorthDallas40 said:
Our field isn’t conducive to total remote work but as you point out there are phases which can be done nearly anywhere. The key is for people at least in our field to be honest when they NEED to be on site and when they can work anywhere.

My idiot company finally stopped dictating a one size fits all work environment and empowered dept mgrs to handle their needs accordingly. I was shocked but honestly at the rate we’re losing people they are willing to try anything.
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Few more days and you can spill the beans?
 
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Orangeburst said:
Where you worked.
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Oh. I might have to renege on that for a bit. Had a talk with the guy who MIGHT hire me back start of next year part time. He told me what he what was lining up and IF I decide to want to work again I admit it sounds interesting. I simply don’t know if I will want to go back yet. And I told him if I had to chose today I’m a hard no. We will see.
 
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Vol Main said:
The same right wing mopes who complain about current gas prices with blame directed at President Biden will howl socialism if President Biden acts to curb the price gouging. Too many Republican politicians are short on integrity while their voters lack the common sense God gave a goose
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It's a well known fact that if one could actually reason with a democrat there wouldn't be any but sadly they do not have the ability to reason.
 
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C-south said:
Or they could contract someone to do 8 days of work for a month. Or they could create a position that combined other duties. Someone being able to work from home seems like it’s a pretty expendable position.
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At what level of management are you employed?
 
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