Re: The price of fuel

From	Bob Henson <q59qr3wnw@mozmail.com>
Newsgroups	alt.sixtyplus
Subject	Re: The price of fuel
Date	2026-05-12 09:35 +0100
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On 11/5/26 9:04 pm, Citizen Smith wrote:
> vickiebee wrote:
>> 
>> SW Okla. USA - Regular = $3.78, Diesel = $5.54
> 
> UK: about £1.57 per litre.
> 
> US: about £3.64 per gallon, or about £0.96 per litre.
> 
> Difference: about 61p more per litre in the UK.
> 
> For a 55-litre fill-up, that's roughly £86 in the UK versus about £53 in the
> US, before any local variation in state prices or station pricing.
> <https://www.globalpetrolprices.com/United-Kingdom/gasoline_prices/>
> 
> Stats from Perplexity.
> 
> We pay a lot more here, but then we get "free" healthcare.

Your speech marks make the point - there's nothing free about it. Having 
paid my taxes and National Insurance  for 50 years, it took a year to 
get a consultation with a cardiologist and some new medicines, another 
year to get a test he recommended and some considerable time to get a 
second test. I think I'd settle for the cheap petrol - I could have paid 
for some decent medical insurance with the saving on fuel over 50 years. 
I'd have had a bigger and better car too.

-- 
Tetbury, Gloucestershire, UK

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