How gasoline money is divided among oil firms taxes and dealers
A breakdown shows the average 72 cents per gallon path: about 32 cents for crude oil, 14 cents in taxes, 9 cents dealer profit, 9 cents refining, 5 cents marketing, and 2 cents profit. The tilt enables higher refining costs to be passed to consumers. Last year U S oil companies earned a $14.2 billion profit on $84.6 billion in sales.
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New York
Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries
Mobil
Exxon
Department of Energy
Hallmark: 500 years of protecting consumers in London
London marks 500 years of hallmarking at Goldsmiths Hall a system that verifies precious metal content for buyers. The exhibit shows 218 hallmarked items from royal to humble spoons noting 1478 date codes and historic forgeries.
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London
UPI
Goldsmith's Hall
Goldsmith’s Company
Foster Lane
I.R. Threlfall
Goldsmith's Company
Paris
Montpellier
France
England
Goldsmiths’ Guild
Britain
Threlfall
Charles
Prince of Wales
Elizabeth
John Moore
Alexander Thomas
Lee Memorial House History and 1883 Sale Price
The Robert E. Lee Memorial Arlington House sits on a hill above Arlington National Cemetery. Built by George Washington Parke Custis, it became Lee family property after marriages and confiscation during the Civil War. Custis Lee sold it to the government in 1883 for $150,000.
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Robert E. Lee
Arlington House
Arlington National Cemetery
George Washington Parke Custis
Martha Washington
Mary Ann Randolph Custis
Lee
George Washington Custis Lee
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