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To: DuckTapeSunroof who wrote (46633)	10/21/2010 1:26:27 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71588

Not even slightly doubtful, essentially true beyond reasonable doubt. That doesn't require including ordinary corporate income taxes on oil companies, just special taxes connected to oil or its refined products. But even ordinary corporate taxes probably should be considered for this specific calculation, since they are a cost imposed by the government, and a way the government benefits from the processing of oil. If your comparing oil to other energy sources than I wouldn't count them (except to the extent that they exceed the amount of taxes from the other sources per unit of energy, which they often do either due to targeted tax breaks on the other sources, or lack of profitability in the companies producing the other sources); but if your just measuring the flow of money for oil, its mostly to governments.