Where Your Gas Money Goes

[B' Spokes: There is a lot of interest among those in Government to support tourism. The reason is simple, it's outside money spent locally. What I will assert is the reverse of tourism is overly supporting the automobile because it's local money that goes away from the localities and the state.]
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Via The Union of Concerned Scientists

Vehicle owners, on average, spend almost as much on gas as on the vehicle itself—benefiting oil companies and virtually no one else.
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The results are clear. Your gas money doesn't support your local gas station, nor does it benefit you financially, even if you own oil company stock. Most of the money you spend at the pump goes directly to one place: oil companies.
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Out of the more than $22,000 spent on gas over the lifetime of an average vehicle bought in 2011, oil companies rake in about $15,000.
Of the remainder, 14 percent of the money spent on gasoline goes to taxes that help pay for roads and transportation services, 10 percent to refining costs, and 8 percent to distribution and marketing.
Gas stations average only three to five cents of profit from each gallon of gasoline sold. They make more profit off the bottled water and candy you buy inside than off the fuel you buy outside.
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You gain virtually nothing in return—even if you own stock in oil companies

Regardless of how many shares you may own in oil companies, your oil use does not benefit your bottom line.
Say you have $20,000 invested in ExxonMobil, the largest publicly traded oil company in the world. If you spent $1,700 on gas from ExxonMobil over the course of a year, your fuel purchase would yield far less than a penny in stock earnings. Even if you had $1 million invested, you would still get less than one cent in return after spending almost $2,000 on gasoline.
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