This is certainly a rather significant question having many layers and implications.

The cost of gasoline you see listed at the pump may be the most prominent indicator of energy costs for a very large share of humanity. Regardless of whether driving a car or taking a bus or even walking on a street, the ‘arm and a leg’ brightly lit sign that sparks a “WTF” moment at some high figure is the most instantaneous interaction that consumers have with the price of energy.

However angry Americans might be at $4.49.9 per gallon gasoline, that selling price doesn’t come close to the actual costs of fuel. Not taken into account are health costs (cancers, asthma, otherwise), the subsidies for systems utilizing energy (such as tax finances spent on streets, highway maintenance, police, parking, …), opportunity costs (what better uses for the land?), security (including overseas military operations), and environmental injury — such as that pesky little dilemma of Climate Change. For that reason, Americans’ most prominent and most emotional engagement with <a href=" http://electricratefinder.com/">energy</a> 

 prices sends false signals that misleads as to the authentic implications of using a gallon of gasoline.

Recognizing this, the <a href=" http://electricratefinder.com/">Center</a>   for Investigative Reporting put together this video to follow a gallon of gasoline to explain the different cost streams currently being left out of the price tag on the sign.