Where Your Gas Money Goes

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Reducing oil use is a smart strategy for our pocketbooks, our climate and our health. 

This article was reposted with permission from the Union of Concerned Scientists.

Every year, Americans spend hundreds of billions of dollars at the gas pump, but where does that money go? To find the answer, UCS examined how drivers’ gas dollars are distributed among all the stakeholders involved in getting oil from the ground to your gas tank.

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.

You have a choice when it comes to your oil use: Continue pumping your money into oil company profits or invest in fuel efficiency and keep the profits in your pocket instead.

Americans Spend A Lot of Money on Gas

  • Published on Feb 6, 2013
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