# Stupid question on gas prices

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**Category:** PittSpeed Off Topic\
**Created:** [May 14, 2008, 9:20pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/stupid-question-on-gas-prices/197454 "2008-05-14T21:20:20Z")\
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**Author:** ![beat90tsi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/43a26b/32.png) [@beat90tsi](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/beat90tsi)\
**Post date:** [May 23, 2008, 9:34am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/stupid-question-on-gas-prices/197454/58 "2008-05-23T09:34:23Z")

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> [@Update! New Price!](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/update-new-price/36400/14):
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> So if gas is @ 3.85 per gallon, take off 49.5 cents…you have 3.36 is what the cost of gas is before tax. So you get taxed roughly 15% for gas.

Fortunately it’s not a %, back in 99 or so, the last time gas was under $1/gal, that tax was half the price. Gas before taxes was literally 50 cents/gal, and I think that was premium, less than a decade ago.

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