Things don't seem to be all the different do they. We are plagued with same
type of lack of leadership here as well and hence the same problems arise. I
never agreed with the "cutting back on emissions to save the environment"
That's just more garbage.
Personally I buy the size I need in a vehicle and the nicest I am willing to
pay for.
I don't own any thing with status attached to it. But that's just me. We all
spend our money on what has value to us and I am no different.
Government is so big here that I am not sure things could ever go back to
common sense.
In the mean time we just buy fuel with our debit cards. That way it does not
hurt so bad. Was that planned ?
Best regards, Dan

"The Magnum" wrote in message
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"jim" wrote in message
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The Magnum wrote:
While you guys in the USA are thinking about petrol soon to be $6 a
gallon
have a thought for us poor brits..
I just paid £1 a litre today. Taking into account theres nigh on 4.5
litres
in a gallon..

4.50 GBP
United Kingdom Pounds = 8.28851 USD
United States Dollars
1 GBP = 1.84189 USD 1 USD = 0.542920 GBP

That makes our fuel at $8.29 now... not in the future (

Bet that makes you feel better...lol


judging by the size of the cars and lorries in the uk the miles per
gallon should be higher than the behemoths that travel the us' roads.

I agree the US has a lot of gas guzzling vehicals but UK has a fair few
too.
That said, theres no reason why you guys couldnt use more economical cars.
Personally i drive a Ford Granada 2.5 scorpio turbo and wouldnt feel safe
in
anything smaller, at least theres some metal around you to protect you in
an
average collision. Theres some pretty big 4x4's about too. That said our
prices have gone up and up with the pretence of "cutting back on emissions
to save the environment" then they go to war and put tons more pollutants
in
the air.... and blow thousands of people to smithereens... Absolutely
bonkers