---- ANTONY MARSH <apetermarsh@ME.COM> wrote: 
> Prompted by comments about has I wrote my brother who is right now in Spain. Here is his reply. 
> 
> Doing the math at one sterling pound being equal (today) to $1.56 it means it will cost you just about $10 a US gallon in the UK. Could be skittle more or less due to the prices differences in different regions. 
> 
> So, I think, anything around $4 a gallon here in the USA is still inexpensive comparing it to Europe prices. 
> 
> Regards to all 
> Peter Marsh 
> Naples FL
> >  
> > It's around the £1.35 a litre for petrol and £1.43 a litre for diesel. It's going to go up every week according to the motoring press. It's the same numbers here but in €uros.
> >  
> > 

It is closer to $8+ than to $10, but we are still getting a bargain compared to the U.K., or anyone else in Europe.  Of course, if we figured environmental and health costs in ................. .  Many non-European countries subsidize fuel costs heavily, and so the consumer pays a lot less than in the U.S.  There is no justice, and lots of politics involved.

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David McNeely