Dave wrote:
On Thu, 25 Jan 2007 08:57:16 GMT, "Dennis Pogson"
said:

$6.50 per US gallon here in UK.

How much of that is tax?
Around 82%, between fuel tax and vat. It's added as a precentage rather than
a fixed amount per gallon so that when the refineries put their prices up
due to oil price increases, the Government wins, hands down! The next scam
will soon be "road charges", levied on a GPS-assessed figure of how much
mileage you do, and when. (Go to work at 3am and you get a discount!) It
will soon be better not to work but to go on welfare here in the UK, so long
as you drive to collect your welfare check at 3am.

This is all rather arbritrary anyway, since the more you give the Government
whilst you are alive, the less you are left with to give them when you die
(currently 40% on anything you leave over £285k, including your home).

DP