Be glad you don't live in Europe. Here in the UK, sales tax (known as VAT - "Value-Added Tax" - though it's technically a duty) is 17½%, and when you buy car fuel, you pay VAT on the fuel duty as well as on the fuel itself, making the government's share much greater than the oil companies' revenue.

Now we need someone from Scandinavia to say what high taxes really mean (cue the Four Yorkshiremen...)
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Toby Speight
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