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bono_212 said:
I'm not trying to be rude, but isn't there already a tax on gas and it's already added into the price (help me out I can't remember what this type of tax is called, but they do it to, i think, stamps and other items as well.).
Yes - indeed there is. I didn't word my reply properly.
I was referring to the overtaxing of gasoline.
Anyway, the details I looked up from Wikipedia are:
US:
"The U.S. federal gasoline tax as of 2005 was 18.4¢/gal (4.86¢/L), and the gasoline taxes in the various states range from 10 cents to 33 cents, with an average about 22 cents per U.S. gallon (5.8¢/L). "
UK:
"As of 2005 fuel duty in the United Kingdom is:
50.9 pence per litre (89 ¢/L) for conventional unleaded petrol "
So about 40 cents of a US gasoline gallon is tax.
In the UK, it is around $3.34 per gallon as tax.
An additional 2 or 3 dollars (or even less) of US tax would get politicians kicked out of office.