How much of the US govt budget money comes from tax on petrol and related oil products?


federal gas tax $0.184 per gallon.
u.s. uses 400 million gallons per day
http://www.eia.doe.gov/basics/quickoil.h...
figure 0.184 x 400 x 365 = ~$26 billion

total government income 2008 $2.66 trillion.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/united_stat...
1% came gasoline tax. (another bit came diesel fuel tax, less gasoline tax total.)

(note government took $2.66 trillion, paid out $2.9 trillion, went went $240 billion further debt.)

how money?
percentage of amount govt gets tax?


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