{"id":17448,"date":"2009-12-29T17:27:40","date_gmt":"2009-12-29T23:27:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.businesspundit.com\/?p=17448"},"modified":"2015-06-02T12:45:49","modified_gmt":"2015-06-02T18:45:49","slug":"the-unquenchable-thirst-taxing-americas-oil-addiction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businesspundit.com\/the-unquenchable-thirst-taxing-americas-oil-addiction\/","title":{"rendered":"The Unquenchable Thirst: Taxing America&#8217;s Oil Addiction"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"padding: 5px 10px 0pt 0pt; width: 54px; float: left;\"><script src=\"http:\/\/digg.com\/tools\/diggthis.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div style=\"padding: 5px 10px 0pt 0pt; width: 54px; float: left;\"><a name=\"fb_share\" type=\"box_count\" href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Share<\/a><script src=\"http:\/\/static.ak.fbcdn.net\/connect.php\/js\/FB.Share\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><\/div>\n<p>In the U.S., our dependence on oil not only makes for wealthy oil companies, it also supports our federal, state and local governments. Gas taxes add up quickly and some areas of the country are taxed more heavily than others. However, one surprising thing holds true: The government profits even more from our oil addiction than the super-rich oil companies do.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Click to Enlarge<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><a title=\"Taxing America&#039;s Oil Addiction\" rel=\"lightbox\" href=\"https:\/\/www.businesspundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/hanst_oiltax.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.businesspundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/hanst_oiltax_thm.jpg\" alt=\"Taxing America's Oil Addiction\" width=\"500\" height=\"350\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 500px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 500\/350;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the U.S., our dependence on oil not only makes for wealthy oil companies, it also supports our federal, state and local governments. Gas taxes add up quickly and some areas of the country are taxed more heavily than others. However, one surprising thing holds true: The government profits even more from our oil addiction than the super-rich oil companies do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":17450,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1197],"tags":[4939,10,4940,4941,8396,5305],"class_list":{"0":"post-17448","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-gas","9":"tag-government","10":"tag-oil","11":"tag-profits","12":"tag-taxes","13":"tag-toparticles"},"acf":[],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businesspundit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businesspundit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businesspundit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businesspundit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businesspundit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17448"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businesspundit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17448\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businesspundit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businesspundit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businesspundit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businesspundit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}