price of gas going up?

[Inchante]

Something like 75% of the pump price is taxation with the filling station only receiving a couple of pence per litre sold as profit.
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Well, it sounds like taxation is the problem. That is an issue you can do something about at the ballot box if you like. Americans generally have very low taxes, but that is due to a historic aversion to it. That aversion, I believe, has had both positive and negative effects.