21-Jun-2010, 04:15 PM
The pre-tax price of gasoline/petrol is about 10 percent LESS in the UK than it is in the US, if the taxation numbers I saw recently are correct. Unlike the UK and Europe, the US doesn't tax fuel to fund a large portion of its operations, and so the much lower retail price here has allowed people to afford larger vehicles.
I'm going from memory, because it's a few months since I did the comparison, but in Washington State, our total tax is about 35 cents a gallon, 26 cents being the Federal tax, the rest is the State. That works out to about 9 cents a liter or about 6p. We're paying about $2.70 a US gallon
this week at the cheapest station around.
Frank
I'm going from memory, because it's a few months since I did the comparison, but in Washington State, our total tax is about 35 cents a gallon, 26 cents being the Federal tax, the rest is the State. That works out to about 9 cents a liter or about 6p. We're paying about $2.70 a US gallon
this week at the cheapest station around.
Frank
Frank Damp (wife Eileen, nee Nixon)
Leyland resident 1941-1965, emigrated to the US in 1968,
retired to Anacortes, Washington State, USA in 1999.
Leyland resident 1941-1965, emigrated to the US in 1968,
retired to Anacortes, Washington State, USA in 1999.