In the wake of the protests, those governments have gradually made concessions which have lowered those taxes. That makes a return to trouble less likely. EXIT Anyone who's taken a long trip on an interstate lately has noticed that gasoline prices can vary by nearly 20 cents a gallon from one exit to the next. A gas station owner buys a load of gas, pays for it and can't sell it for less than he paid, unless he wants to go broke. Gas station owners, in Ohio, make only 6 to 10 cents profit on each gallon of gas they sell.
Consumers pay more in taxes on gas than dealers make in profit.
Federal tax on gas is 18.9 cents. State taxes vary, but in Ohio, it's 22 cents. But there you have a business that is in the hands of a few men, and they see that the price is kept up. It's not regulated by supply and demand. It's regulated by manipulation.