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echo: barktopus
to: Geo
from: Mark
date: 2006-04-29 22:37:30
subject: Re: Record fuel prices in the UK

From: "Mark" 


"Geo"  wrote in message news:44540682$2{at}w3....
> "Phil Payne" 
wrote in message
> news:4450ba45$1{at}w3....
>> http://www.guardian.co.uk/uklatest/story/0,,-5784048,00.html
>>
>> Or $7.53 per (US) gallon.
>
> So what are you doing to cope with it? I can't imagine gasoline costing
> that
> much here, things would come to a halt.

Well, Phil estimated 80% of that was taxes, so they're really only paying
about a buck and a half a gallon -- our equivalent without our fed/state
taxes would be about $2.40, so they're doing okay.

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