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If I'm not mistaken drivers in Great Britain payed $5.79 a gallon Wednesday<!-/quote-!><hr size=0></blockquote>
Nope, your not mistaken. Over here its about 80p a LITRE and rising. Thats maybe £3.20 a US gallon. With an exchange rate of approx 1.8 (I'm guessing at the exchange rate), that makes it $3.70 a gallon approx. And the government takes well over half of that in tax, possible more than 75%, claiming "its to protect the environment" despite the fact that most CO2 is realeased by volcanoes and then heavy industry. It doesn't hit us as hard as it does you, seen as we travel a lot less due to a smaller country, but it still sucks. I reckon you could get from Lands End to John'o'groats in 14 hours (thats from north Scotland to the most southernly point.) |