17% is the cost of retailing, 10% the cost of retailing it ? |
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Correction to the above: 17% for refining costs and 10% for marketing.
Also, with regard to royalties. Oil companies pay royalties to the land-owner when they produce oil or gas from their land. However, the U.S. government is considered the leaseholder for offshore production greater than 3 miles off the cost. Less than 3 miles off the coast, the leaseholder is the state.
You also have to remember that oil companies bid on offshore leases (go to mms.gov to see how much companies bid for the opportunity to spend billions of dollars to find hydrocarbons, and produce it if it exists in quantities large enough to be economically justified.
Less than 20% of the "plays" turn out to be economically viable. But if production begins, then the government does get paid a royalty. Technically they get the percentage of oil/gas, but they usually (always?) choose to accept $’s instead.
Something also to be noted, while in the U.S., onshore property owners typically own the mineral rights under their land, in most other parts of the world, the local government owns the mineral rights under personal property.
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Bruce; Do your figures include the supposed ’widfall’ taxes? |
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17% for refining costs ... Ooops ... corrected.Bruce; Do your figures include the supposed ’widfall’ taxes? No. |
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Is it just me or does the "windfall profit tax" idea sound more and more like a pure money grab? |
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CR: Of course it is just a money grab, under the guise of ’doing something’.
Bruce: Ah. So it would seem that even your reports the level of "obscene profits" that the government is pocketing, under-estimate the situation on an order of scale.
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so we are going to drill for oil with drilling ships that are in shortage
http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/06/18/business/ships.php
but after you get the ships and start drilling its going to take 3 years till the oil gets to the market? hmm some sort term solution. |
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"but after you get the ships and start drilling its going to take 3 years till the oil gets to the market? hmm some sort term solution."
Still much shorter than it will take before any "alternatives" and "renewables" make any meaningful impact in our total energy picture. Besides, we could have meaningful production already if Congress would have started to allowed E&P activity over the past decade. Had that happened you can be sure that new rig ships and platforms would have been built. You know; that supply and demand thingy... |
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If it is not going to make an impact right now, there is no sense in doing it. If prices do not decrease the instant pen is put to paper and any legislation or agreement is executed, we should investigate something else. If we had done something that takes three years to come to fruition three years ago, then,.... oh wait a second. |
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U.S. government is considered the leaseholder for offshore production greater than 3 miles off the cost. Less than 3 miles off the coast, the leaseholder is the state. What about beyond the 12 mile limit? Wouldn’t that be international waters? Do the Feds claim lease money for that also? |
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What about beyond the 12 mile limit? Wouldn’t that be international waters? Do the Feds claim lease money for that also? The feds (and most other nations) claim up to 200 miles out. State waters (like for FL) normally go out 10 miles (some states may claim 12 or 15, but not much more). |
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I would like to propose a windfall profits tax on Democrat Senators who enter office (or a Senator elect in Hillary’s case with her 10 million dollar book advance) and become instant millionaires from sweet heart book deals and whose wives get 100% raises in one year. |
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"17% is the cost of refining, 10% the cost of retailing it and 15% goes to taxes."
So from $4 that’s $1.68. That means when gas was being sold for $1.30, oil producers were paying people to take it.
Or, these ’costs’ have grown proportionately with the cost of oil. In which case the breakdown hasn’t factored out the cost of oil properly. Or, at each stage, when someone gets their grubby hands on it, they take a percentage markup instead of adding a fixed cost. |
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