Praying for cheaper gas.

[Gawdzilla]

Go take into account all the subsidies, tarrifs, excise and at least some of the costs of the wars for oil and all the inflation your Reserve Bank is causing and then tell me you're paying less than the brits It only looks like you're paying less because you don't get to see all the cash you're forking out aside from the pump.

So they don't pay anything besides the pump price. "Congestion fee", anyone?

Only if you want to go to the hellish place that is the london road system.

Just one example.

[Napoléon]

My Brit friends are paying $10.50/gal or so. I'm not whining here yet.

british petrol prices are a joke, we pay more on the tax on the petrol than the cost of the petrol itself.

[theVOID]

Go take into account all the subsidies, tarrifs, excise and at least some of the costs of the wars for oil and all the inflation your Reserve Bank is causing and then tell me you're paying less than the brits It only looks like you're paying less because you don't get to see all the cash you're forking out aside from the pump.

So they don't pay anything besides the pump price. "Congestion fee", anyone?

Of course they do, I didn't suggest otherwise, what I was getting at is this: You pay much more of the price of oil in taxes and other costs than they do, this needs to be taken into an account before you start saying nonsense like they pay 2-3 times as much. While the rest of the world may pay more at the pump than Americans we also subsidies a small fraction of what you do.

My Brit friends are paying $10.50/gal or so. I'm not whining here yet.

british petrol prices are a joke, we pay more on the tax on the petrol than the cost of the petrol itself.

Same here, are asshole government takes 66%.

[Gawdzilla]

So, mass terrorist action on a local scale and tactical nukes for diplomatic purposes. I'm in.

[Doubting Thomas]

The sad thing is that when gas prices do eventually drop 10 cents a gallon, they'll run around screaming about how great their god is because he answered their prayers. And next year gas prices go up another dollar.

Meanwhile, children in Africa praying for food are still starving.

[Minimalist]

Meanwhile, children in Africa praying for food are still starving.

They lack faith....obviously.

[Gawdzilla]

Meanwhile, children in Africa praying for food are still starving.

They lack faith....obviously.

I'm resisting the urge to post the starving kid with the vultures waiting on the sidelines pix.

[Welsh cake]

The price of petrol in Britain is beyond, even diesel is not much better, I know many families and businesses who are really hurting and struggling to stay afloat.

While we're in this situation, we could have saved ourselves by using public transport and the railways as a commuting alternative, however some arsehole thought it a brilliant idea to axe thousands of miles of our infrastructure. We're screwed in this regard since parts of it have been sold off to property development meaning we can never put it back the way it was and worse still we have to still maintain those structures of the disused network or forced into spending millions turning them into bloody cycle tracks.

At least the Americans were smart enough to keep these permanent ways intact and have laws protecting them being developed upon should they return to profitability, but not this country's government, oh no, short-term solution long-term nightmare is the best we can manage. >.>

And don't even get me started on car insurance.

[Napoléon]

And don't even get me started on car insurance.

lol my insurance was nearly £4,000. about twice as much as my car's even worth.