<< This question is interesting to me because we know why gasoline/petrol costs so much in the UK -- it is the tax that is applied. The world price of crude is pretty constant, and I believe the pre-
Why *is* Federal tax included in the shelf price but local taxes only at the checkout? If a store had some checkouts either side of a state line I could understand it, but surely the store knows how
That is a good question. I know that when I first moved into California and was relatively impecunious, I found the extra 7.5% "surprise" outrageous. But I suspect the reason is that it changes so of
Bob - sounds like it's from the same madhouse as UK VAT. Imagine the grower of trees sold for wood-pulp. Now he has to pay VAT on everything he buys to grow, harvest and ship the trees to the pulper,
Here's the next episode of this soap: the European Commision has started an investigation to the differences in the fuel prices within the EC BEFORE TAXES. The current situation looks like to Dutch
Two reports in a week show the UK has the cheapest petrol in Europe - before tax, and the dearest after, leaving no one in any doubt as to who is the perpetrator of this highway robbery (as if anyone
Following the UK blockade of distribution centres, panic buying and resultant shortages some garages have been reported as charging 11UKP (eleven) a gallon! After the hottest September day for 39 yea
Paul n All, I was in the UK a year ago and it was bloody expensive to put in UK terms. Eleven quid for a gallon of gas is just out of this world. Here in Bolivia I pay 3.2U$ a gallon after the recent
Hi Enrique - four gallons for a UKP is a memory - a distant one. I'm afraid electricity for cars will be taxed as much as fossil fuel if a way can be found. If not it will go on the road tax instead.
I now am in Frankfurt Germany. There also are coming road blocks near the belgian border. As I'm driving back home next friday< I'll have to watch the news closely. No government except the French ar