To set a context for this piece, Britain actually adds import duties to the price of gasoline and diesel fuel…and has an increase scheduled to take effect next month, generating a certain amount of hostility, since the Brits gas is now over 1 pound per liter (non-metric types think of a quart). The pound is running around $2 now, making their gas NOW oaver $8.00 per gallon!

Alistair Darling under fire over fuel duty rise

Motorists could be paying £5 a gallon for petrol within weeks if the Chancellor implements the 2.35 pence a litre rise in the Budget. Diesel drivers have long since broken the £5 barrier, much to the fury of hauliers and farmers. With oil on the world market trading at $103 a barrel, there was little relief in sight for road users, especially with mounting speculation that other “green motoring taxes” could be included in the Budget.

The groundswell of opposition to further rises appeared was growing last night after it emerged that the cost of fuel has increased by nearly 20 per cent in 12 months. A coalition including the National Farmers’ Union, motoring groups, business leaders, petrol retailers and the TaxPayers Alliance is demanding the next rise, scheduled for April 1, be scrapped.

Sort of like the saying “I complained because I had no shoes, then met a man who had no feet.”