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Baytown Briefs • September 9, 1960
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Elaine Linder
Elaine Linder Named To Head Up
Community Chest Speakers Bureau
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Gasoline taxes
up 51%
in ten years
You pay 90‘tax
on IO gallons of gasoline
Advertisements like this one, showing gasoline taxes paid by motorists in Texas, are now beginning to
appear in other states throughout the country to protest the excessive gasoline tax. The outdoor poster
which is now going up in this area is shown at the top part of the ad.
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Costs
Gasoline
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Prosentod in the
public interost
by the Gacolino Tax
Education Committee
575 Lexington Avenue
New York, New York
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Your gasoline dealer—who must collect these taxes from
you—feels that gasoline taxes are much too high. More
and more, thinking people are coming to agree. What do
you think?
Everywhere in Texas, car
owners pay 90 tax on every
10 gallons of gasoline they buy.
Does a tax this high—on a
basic commodity like gasoline
—really make sense? Gasoline
taxes across the nation amount
to a 50% sales tax—and that’s
five times as high as the tax
rate on luxuries like diamonds
and mink coats.
How did gasoline taxes get
so high? Well, since World
War II, there have been three
increases in the federal gaso-
line tax alone. This brought the
Federal tax to 4 cents a gallon, in addition to the State
tax of 5 cents a gallon.
Looking at it another way, in the last ten years gaso-
line taxes have skyrocketed 51%—yet the price of gaso-
line itself has risen only 5.5% during the same period.
$78 a year for gasoline taxes 1 Gallon by gallon,
these taxes add up to a lot of money. Each year the
average motor vehicle owner in this state pays $78 for
gasoline taxes alone. That’s just a few dollars less than
the average week’s pay for most people I
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HIGHWAYS AND GASOLINE TAXES
Your gasoline retailer, naturally, favors construction of
the roads that the motoring public needs. He believes
in fair and reasonable taxation for this purpose but
feels that taxes on gasoline have now reached unreason-
ably high levels. He also believes that all special taxes
on the motorist should be used only for highway pur-
poses. Yet last year, out of every automobile tax dollar
collected by the Federal Government from highway
users, more than 40 cents went for non-highway pur-
poses. If these automotive tax revenues were dedicated
for highway purposes, there would be no need for the
latest increase in the federal gasoline tax.
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All Stacked Up
Labor Day weekend might have meant three days off for most
Refinery people but employees at the Butyl plant were doing just
‘he opposite o( vacationing—they were setting a new three-day
production record. Beginning last Friday, the plant’s production for
* r irs ’ ime topped -30 tons a day for three consecutive days.
Eriday’s production was 232.5 tons, Saturday’s was 233.9 tons, and
Sunday $ was 230.6 tons. Then on Labor Day, a reactor at the RHB
apparently decided it had been laboring too hard, and got cranky
enough so that production for that day fell to 202 tons.
Moxement of packaged rubber was slow for the holiday weekend,
and.with production going at a record clip, it was “full house” at the
Einishing, building warehouse Tuesday morning. Pictured above
part of the 2% million pounds on hand at the building Tuesday.
A pretty Refinery administra-
tive secretary will head this
year’s speakers bureau for the
Baytown-East Harris County
Community Chest drive. She is
Mrs. Elaine Linder who in 1958
was one of two women in the
speakers division of the East
Harris campaign. She is one of
the county’s most active United
Fund campaigners.
It was in 1958 also that Mrs.
Linder was accorded an unusual
honor following an address she
made before the West Baytown
Kiwanians: She became the first
woman to attend a meeting of
the Baytown Touchdown club.
Members of the speakers bu-
reau who are Refinery employees
are R. S. Manno, Raymond Don-
nelly, Joe Williams, Henry Lyles,
Mrs. Katherine Suesse, T. H.
Royder, J. Robert Barnes, and
Ruben DeHoyos.
Frank Gaines Is
New Coordinator
Starting Oct. 1
Frank Gaines, Jr., is joining
the headquarters of Humble Oil
& Refining Company as coordi-
nator of Executive Development
and Organization Planning, it
was announced September 1.
In his new position, a newly
created post in the Secretary’s
Department, Gaines will be con-
cerned with the coordination and
development of these activities
on a Company-wide basis.
He is currently serving as pro-
duction manager of the Carter
Division’s eastern area, with
headquarters in Mattoon, Illi-
nois. He will assume his new
duties in Houston on October 1.
Here is an opportunity for the
motorist to do something about
stopping a tax on gasoline. Every
retail gasoline dealer in the coun.
try will be invited to participate
in the program by having pe.
tition forms ready for their cus-
tomers to sign. Then it will be
up to all of us as tax-paying
customers to make our voices
known.
In the last ten years, gasoline
taxes have skyrocketed 51 per
cent, while the price of gasoline
itself has risen only 5.5 per cent.
Today, the average gasoline
tax in the U. S. is 10 cents a
gallon. That includes both stale
and federal taxes. The rate of
tax on gasoline is almost four
times the rate of lax on a luxury
item like a fur coat. When the A (9
meter on the pump at a service • V
station registers S3, SI of that S3
is for taxes. The average mo-
torist pays nearly S80 a year in
direct gasoline taxes. It’s more
than that for many of us in Bay-
town.
The point is that today the
consumer pays almost exactly the
same price for gasoline that he
paid in 1925, yet it is a far
superior gasoline. But when you
add the cost of the taxes, the
price of gasoline is up about eight
cents a gallon. Percentage-wise,
gasoline is up one per cent since
1925 and gasoline taxes are up
380 per cent.
As one oil industry writer
points out, the public pays this
tax. The oil companies don’t pay ;
it. But the oil companies fight
the growth of gasoline taxes be-
cause it is a burden on their
customers that has a tendency to
retard sales.
Therefore, the campaign of
the oil associations to collect pe-
titions against the extension of
the temporary one-cent federal
gasoline lax is in ihe public
interest since it could save the
average consumer many dollars
a year—and that is YOU and ; 0
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Humble is backing the in-
dustry’s national Gasoline Tax
Education program which is
being conducted between now
and June 30, 1961, to forcibly
present facts to the motoring
public on the effect gasoline
taxes have on the price they now
pay for gasoline. The national
advertising campaign is entitled,
“The gasoline you buy is taxed
too high!”
Through the media of outdoor
billboards and advertising which
will appear in newspapers in five
of Texas’ largest cities and in
167 weeklies, the committee will
point out that in Texas, for ex-
ample, “You pay 904 tax on 10
gallons of gasoline.” Also, spot
radio broadcasts are being heard
in nine areas of high population
concentration. This 904 tax does
not include a multitude of in-
direct taxes, such as production,
transportation and manufactur-
ing taxes.
In a recent letter, R. H.
Venn, Manager of Marketing,
said: “There are indications that
the current four-cent federal
gasoline lax will be extended or
raised between now and June 30,
1961, when an additional one-
cent ‘temporary’ levy that was
added last year is due to expire.”
The various oil companies are
not alone in their efforts to re-
duce the gasoline tax. Gasoline
purchasers will have a chance to
do something about expressing
themselves by petitions on the
subject during the first week in
October.
Service stations from coast
to coast will be asked to partici-
pate in the campaign. Specifi-
cally, the pelilions will have to
do with the temporary one-cent
federal gasoline tax that is
scheduled to expire on June 30,
1961. It is the concensus of
many in the petroleum industry
that undoubtedly the tax will be
extended unless there is a cry of
protest of some kind from the
gasoline lax-paying-public.
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