Here's some interesting reading...
And sorry up front if this has already been discussed here - I looked and didn't find it.
The article is from 1998, so pretty dated, but pretty eye opening. I don't necessarily agree with lumping everything they do into the ~$14.00 per gallon number (1998 data), but it still made me stop and think.....
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Real Price of Gasoline is the amount that consumers are already paying in the form of hidden external costs reflected in higher taxes, insurance premiums, and consumer prices in other retail sectors. Once we establish that consumers are paying from $4.60 to $14.14 per gallon of gasoline more than the price at the pump, it falls upon all of us to either justify this added expense or determine that it makes little economic and social sense.
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http://209.200.74.155/doc/Real%20Pri...20Gasoline.pdf