Come on guys you got it good in the states. Try being in London. Gas right now is $2.40 a liter. It costs me $180.00 to fill my Range Rover sport when I'm here, around town I get around 200 miles from a tank of gas. Sports cars are still selling though. The biggest issue here now is the yearly car tax has just risen to $800.00 a year for anything midsize or over (based on CO). That’s the tax that’s like buying you license plate sticker. In 2010 its set to rise to $2000.00. :ack
We use to have that kind of legalized larceny here in Washinton State. People finally got "ticked" enough to pass an inititive limiting that fee to $33.00!!! (This after YEARS AND YEARS of screaming at Olympia [state capitol for you foreigners!] to address this outrage w/o results.)
Since then, surprise, surprise, the state has seen fit to INVENT new "fees" of various kinds (to try to recover SOME of the tax $$$$ lost). So now we all pay around $45.00. 'More if one has a vanity plate (I think that makes the total around $75.00).
Interestingly enough, the state supreme court found this inititive "unCONSTIPATIONal" (some goofy excuse about "limiting the legislature's authority to TAX!:bored), but, the politicians quickly passed a measure reinstating it for the most part as they KNEW there'd be a revolt in the streets if they didn't.
SOMETIMES democracy works...