- Back in 1980 the cost to refine, distribute and retail
gasoline, or the refiner/marketer margin, averaged about 99 cents per gallon
(in inflation-adjusted terms).
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- By 1990 it averaged more than 63 cents per gallon,
and by 2000 the margin had declined to 54 cents per gallon. It increased
briefly in 2001 as a result of colder than normal weather over the 2000-2001
winter and supply disruptions due to pipeline outages and the introduction
of new blends of gasoline as required under the Clean Air Act.
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- The refiner/marketer margin has since come down to an
average of 48 cents per gallon in 2005.
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- http://www.api.org/Newsroom/testimony/senate-judiciary.cfm
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