[HPFGU-OTChatter] Re: Gas prices US and UK

[Bumbledor]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jennifer Piersol" <jenP_97 at yahoo.com>

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "Jen Reese" <stevejjen at e...>
wrote:
> > coolbeans3131 <coolbeans3131 at y...> wrote:

> >
> > The current price of Petrol (Gas) in the UK is approx 0.82
per
> litre this converts to approx $5.40 per US gallon.
>
>
> Jen: I paid $1.97 a gallon the other day in Austin, Texas, and
> thought that was high, but not now!

Yeah... every time I think about complaining about gas prices, I just
think about how much everyone else pays for gas, and then I know I
have no right to complain.

Then I think about getting out my bicycle.

Of course, I'm to lazy to actually ride my bike anywhere.  Now, get me
to the gym and I'll pedal nowhere for 20 miles...

-Jen, who has decided with her hubby that their next car will be a
hybrid, no matter what gas prices are...

ps.  Our lowest price here is $2.35/gal

Bumbledor writes:
 Ah Jen, you are forgetting, that the UK pays for a lot of its government
thru gas taxes. Ruffly 75 percent of the price of petrol over there is
taxes. Take away the taxes and their price of gas is about the same as ours.

When we compair the overall tax rate of the US compaired to other nations,
we find our current tax rates are about the same.