"Julian Scarfe" wrote in message
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Interesting. Here in the UK, we're paying about $7.70 per gallon for
100LL.

About $1.15 is sales tax levied on almost all goods.
About $2.00 is the excise duty on Avgas.

That leaves $4.55 per gallon, which is more than twice the price John
paid,
according to his original post. Why is the price so high? Because the
oil
companies can get away with it. I think you call that "capitalism", don't
you?

Oddly, our "capitalism" produces mogas at about $1.70 a gallon (with the
state and fed gub'mints taking about $0.35-0.40 of that) and out Avgas 100LL
at $2.62.

Sounds like your over-regulation, demanded by your populace, has bitten you
consumers in the ass. Se, we have dozens of companies in the Avgas business
and hundreds in the petrol business. How many do you have?

The UK hasn't been even remotely free market/capitalist in over 100 years.

You folks shot yourselves in the groin, so quit yer' bitching.