If we now remove your rose tinted glasses, you will see that the average price of fuel in the US is currently running at $3.60 for petrol (gas to you) and $4.02 for diesel a gallon.
Now as you Americans are awkward, and can't adopt anything without messing with it, we have to convert your gallon to ours.
This brings your fuel prices in to $4.33 for petrol and $4.84 for diesel per imp/gallon.
Convert this by the current exchange rate, makes your fuel £2.82 for petrol and £3.15 for diesel if it were here in the UK
Now our fuel prices are currently running at £5.86 for petrol and £6.22 for diesel, and as every commodity has to be transported in some way, this is what is crippling the UK (and European) population/industry.
So you can take your tin hat off and get an idea of the cost of this, try putting your fuel costs up to our rate, that means your petrol would now cost $8.99 and your diesel $9.55 (imp gal) or $7.48 petrol $7.95 diesel (us/gal)
Let's see what that does to the cost of your BigMac's......
Now you know why Europe & the EU are in deep s....
Rob
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