Off topic a bit, but if you own a boat and buy gas at the marina, I can make you feel more sad: If pump gas is $2.75 for example, and marina gas is $3.5 for example, the marina is making .75 more for the gas, right? Nope. The pump gas has road use taxes built into the price, I think they are around .6/gal, depends on the state. Marinas don't charge that, so they are making .75 + .6.

In Texas if you use any pump gas off road, you can get a refund for the road tax by filling out a single form from the comtrollers office. Off road use is a boat, airplane, tractor, etc. FYI. Not a ton of cash but every bit helps and its easy to file.

On a similiar subject, if you remove the taxes from todays pump gas, and you go back to 1980 and remove the taxes, and you adjust the base price for inflation, we are paying less for gas now than we did in 1980.

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