About 80% of the pump price of gasoline in the UK is taxes.

The government-media complex controls what you think and do.

You are told that you are destroying the planet by driving a car and producing CO₂, and this justifies punitive tax rates.

Same for cigarettes. Bad so they must be subject to a punitive tax.

A 39¢ pack of cigarettes now cost $7.50 and a 99¢ gallon of gas is now $3.10 in the US.

Still a bargain compared to Scotland and the Netherlands.