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Here in Wisconsin we frequently see stickers on the gas pumps that draw a motorists attention to exactly what the taxes are on each gallon of the currently $2.49 fuel he or she is purchasing. I think those notices should be larger and more prominent on the pump. Since he is a writer in the automotive field and has brought up this particularly outlandish tax level, I would ask Mr. Peters to consider compiling an "Owners Guide to tax expense on your next vehicle." Take a new Buick LaCrosse or BMW 5 Series and show us all how much money, cents per mile, the new owner can expect to leave on the roadway as he or she drives through Wisconsin, Connecticut, New York or all 50 states, as that vehicle travels along getting the EPA advertised mileage. My bet is it will make some toll roads look almost attractive.

p>Thanks for the great article. br> -- Roger Ross br> Tomahawk, Wisconsin /p> p> I agree with the author (Eric Peters) that gas taxes are ridiculously too high, but do not agree with his analogy of gas and food. Gas taxes are supposed to pay for the roads we drive and there is no such requirement for food and therefore no food tax has been proposed. But I am waiting for a "fat tax" to fund unconstitutional health care related to it. br> -- James W. Clark , CPA br> Greenville, North Carolina /p>

Mr. Peters does an excellent job of articulating a point that has bugged the whatever out of me for longer than I care to remember -- or at least articulating one part of the economic point. I am afraid that most folks have simply come to think of the taxes as something that they can do nothing about, therefore why even think about it. I also find it odd how many folks think that the taxes on automotive fuel are no larger percentage of the price than for any other product -- they got to be in la-la land with that.

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