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Without looking up Jim's facts, I thought it was a pretty common sense post.

Are you getting your money's worth for taxes paid?

How does one quantify value for money?? All UK taxes seem to go into one big pot, whatever its source, VAT, petrol duty, income tax, national insurance, beer & tobacco duty, etc. I doubt many in the UK would say they are getting value for their taxes!

It still does not alter the basic argument that in the UK and Europe generally we pay significantly more for our petroleum. This is a historic situation and has driven the requirement here for fuel efficient motor vehicles. Given the distances travelled in the US are considerably more than in UK/Europe you would think that would drive efforts for fuel efficiency even more than this side of the pond ..... until you throw fuel cost into the equation.:-(