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Old 12-06-2013, 10:15 AM
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What the jackasses keep forgeting is
ITS OUR OIL...drilled on american soil.
Then exploited by big oil to make a profit
at some out of thin air world market price.
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Old 12-06-2013, 10:21 AM
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Newest one that passed last night "storm drainage tax" $100 a year for storm drains. All I can say is I dodged that one we are exempted from that since our township doesn't have storm drains we have creeks and rivers that our run off goes to....
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Old 12-06-2013, 07:56 PM
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This may be a little off subject, but goes with the gas tax issue. Tonight when I was out with my son Jacob. We passed a gas station and asked me why gas is listed with a partial penny amount. I honestly don't know, do you know why we are charged $3.299 for a gallon of gas ? Why don't they just make it $3.30 ?
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Old 12-07-2013, 04:21 AM
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I always thought it was just a way for them to charge more, as the average person will ignore the decimal and think it is 2.99 instead of just shy of 3.00.
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Old 12-07-2013, 06:56 AM
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It's always been that way but years ago that last 9 was real real small. So like Tony said you only see the $2.99 not $2.99.9. Same reason items in stores are never rounded up to a whole dollar, it's $199.99 instead of $200. People ignore the cents so it looks cheaper. Anyway current law here says that last 9 on gas prices must be at least 1/2 the size of the other numbers.

If the price of gas is $3.16.9 do you see $3.17 or $3.16?
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