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April 24, 2012

The Gas Tax You Don't Even Know You're Paying

Leah Goodman, Fortune


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With the Senate recently voting down a measure to eliminate billions of subsidies for Big Oil – funded by U.S. taxpayers – even as the nation's taxpayers suffer from sticker shock at the pump, Americans may well be wondering, do they have any leverage anymore?

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