Thread: Hve the americans got right to complain when our petrol price approaches 12$...

...per gallon? What gets my goat is our loving govornment taxes the fuel (they gotta make a living right), but then have the Audacity to add VAT (Value added Tax) at 17.5% on that tax, not just the price of the fuel. Discuss

When prices go up, people will complain. And in the US, gas prices have doubled in a fairly short time.

US prices have been, and continue to be, much lower than the UK and continental Europe. Nothing new. And government, federal and state, in the US have tax on gas, but not as much as you do.

Part of the problem here is the large number of vehicles that get poor gas mileage -people driving those really get hit hard.