The domestic gasoline tax rate is very high, which has a certain gap with foreign countries. According to relevant data, consumption tax accounts for 26.8 1%, value-added tax is 14.53%, urban construction tax is 2.89%, and the rest is enterprise income tax. When all taxes are added together, the gasoline tax is as high as 48.05%. In the United States, although taxes vary from state to state, they are almost one third of those in China.

2. The depreciation of the US dollar

Since 2008, inflation has always existed. In 2008, a liter of gasoline was only 6.3 yuan, but now it is impossible. It takes more money to buy the same liter of gasoline. At the same time, the dollar has been depreciating, while the renminbi has been appreciating, which is one of the reasons why domestic oil prices only go up but not down.

The international oil price is not equal to the market price.

The international crude oil price has an impact on the later oil price, not the current oil price. The biggest buyer in the international crude oil market is "three barrels of oil", but the pricing power of international crude oil is in the hands of the United States, so the purchase price in the United States is relatively cheap, much lower than ours, so the price is also low. The retail price of gasoline consists of crude oil cost, refining cost, transportation cost, sales cost, import link cost and government taxes and fees.

4. The refining level is low.

1. crude oil futures, referred to as OilFut, are the most important oil futures. OilFut is the abbreviation of "OILFutures". There are four important crude oil futures contracts in the world: NYMEX's light and low-sulfur crude oil, namely "West Texas Intermediate" futures contract; High sulfur crude oil futures contract of Dubai Mercantile Exchange; London International Petroleum Exchange (ICE) Brent crude oil futures contract; Singapore Exchange (SGX) Dubai sour crude oil futures contract.

Two, the world's seven major oil companies The world's seven major oil companies are also known as "oil Seven Sisters". The international monopoly organization of the oil industry in the capitalist world is the "international oil cartel". 1928 In September, the oil monopoly organizations of the United States, Britain, the Netherlands and other countries signed the Aranaka Land Reclamation Agreement, which stipulated the sales quota, and on this basis, it was continuously supplemented and expanded to form an international oil monopoly organization. It is composed of seven major oil companies known as the "seven giants" of international oil, namely Exxon Oil Company, Mobile Oil Company, Mobil Oil Company of California, Texas Oil Company, Gulf Oil Company, BP and Anglo-Dutch Shell Oil Company.