Originally Posted by Worldseries27 (Post 1923379)

I always admired queen elizabeth ii's courage during ww2. She refused to abandon london during the blitz, saw her in a documentary, in the north atlantic aboard a british warship in defiance of the u- boat attacks, and of course her war effort serving in the transportation system, all as a royal princess.
However
we also saw , the crown, the aberfan episode.
As we all are, she is a complicated person, not garbage, and deserving of the love and respect of her people who willingly give it to her.

Originally Posted by DAVES (Post 1923370)

You cannot directly compare. A large part of what you pay for a quantity of gasoline is tax.
It used to be shown on the pump but no longer is. In the US the tax is roughly 1/3 of what we pay. Exact rate in United Kingdom I do not know but I am certain as in the US it is significant. We pay every year for registration, plates, I believe in UK the plate stays with the car.

Originally Posted by Fairway Cruises (Post 1922983)

It's around $6.50 a gallon in the UK and not forgetting it is a larger gallon as it is imperial measurement! Still way too expensive though. Oil is the product we need for centuries to come and is used in so many 'products' not just plastics. gas for vehicles represents one of it's smaller uses! Electric vehicles have to have a charged produced by a power station somewhere on the grid, and guess what they burn fossil fuels! More electric vehicles means worse pollution. Not only the fossil fuel but the battery manufacture and disposal of them. Not to get political here but carbon is vital to our world and if you do the research right we are not polluting our planet as many would believe. We represent a tiny fraction of carbon produced. Around the earth at any one time, under and above the sea there are volcanic erruptions pumping out more 'pollutant' than humans can presently produce in a 100 years! And thos happen all the time below the seas. You really must question what we are told.

Originally Posted by mikemalloy (Post 1923174)

Palm Springs used to be "the Mojave Desert."

Originally Posted by Nucky (Post 1922907)

I for one am Shocked that Oil & Gas Prices have risen so steeply lately. NOT!

Originally Posted by Bucco (Post 1923413)

I THINK that the current federal tax on a gallon of gas is about 18.3 per gallon.....in Florida, add .344 to that.

Originally Posted by Topspinmo (Post 1923378)

Had how much did the royal family pay in taxes? There no royal family. There called dictators. Collecting money off the common people. In UK case they limited the royal family over the government. We have the same, but they hide in congress in form of career politicians.

You might as well give up on price of gas when you are foreigner at heart taking Pol-t-ic’s in another country.

Originally Posted by Bucco (Post 1923413)

I THINK that the current federal tax on a gallon of gas is about 18.3 per gallon.....in Florida, add .344 to that.

Originally Posted by blueash (Post 1923451)

Decimal points Bucco, always check your decimal points. You listed the federal in cents and then Florida in dollars, so either $0.183 and $0.344 or 18.3 cents and 34.4 cents. Florida collects about double what the Federal govt gets per gallon, but Florida is responsible for about 2/3 of the costs of road work, so about right. The county and municipalities in Florida can also impose a fuel tax. The US is losing money on their highway funds as the costs of road construction and repair exceed the amount collected in taxes. See Federal HERE So the highway fund is given money from the general funds to provide the cash required.

Florida, unlike the Federal govt automatically raises its fuel tax every year based on the CPI. If the Federal gov't did the same we would now be paying about 33 cents Federal fuel tax/gallon instead of 18.