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Old 09-28-05, 05:36 PM   #15
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Originally Posted by jumpy
Back to the fuel thingy, I think I'm right in saying the UK has one of the highest (if not the highest) fuel prices in the whole of europe, so our prices are probably the exception, not the rule.
Fuel has two prices, the cost of fuel itself and the artificial cost added in taxes that the government applies to each unit sold. That makes it hard to judge which nation is actually paying more unless you know what percentage of the cost is in taxes.
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