We in the UK should help the american Truckers as well !

Yeah, you got to love our truckers. I pay about $3.43 per gallon over here, and we're complaining. I can't imagine paying $10 a gallon. I'll have to start riding the horse (if I had one). Someone will have to unite your UK truckers--get organized you know. Good luck with that.

More like $12.50 - $13.00, my friend. The cost of living has been going up and up for years, whilst our wage increases have been plummeting from 4% to 1% and now, you're lucky if you even get a rise. They reckon we're going to be in recession next year, and who caused that, do you think. Nope, I think it would be like a drop in the ocean, just like everything else. The smoking ban is a good example... they cut their noses off to spite their faces and then realise how much tax they're losing, so what do they do? Now, a report has come out that mobile phones are much more lethal than smoking, so what do we believe? It's all government hype to squeeze more money out of us. Soon, we shall be working for nothing. I think I'm going to concentrate on getting my Romany Caravan, and clear off out of it! Coming? Brightest Blessings, my dear friend. x

I absolutely agree! This is so retarded! How does the gov. expect the economy to recover, let alone boom, when the cost of shipping goods, by the main method of store delivery, is continually going through the roof?! It's the same stupidity that fuels the minimum wage law. M/W goes up, cost of goods go up. So at $10(wtf?!)/gallon for vehicles that have to travel several thousand miles at an average of 11 mpg, if they're lucky, how does the gov. expect consumers to be able to continue buying to keep up the GNP? I don't see how. Let alone diesel is cheaper to produce than gas.

Yes gas prices are absolutely ridiculous! I think the best we can do is to buy as locally produced things as possible that way they don't have to be shipped quite as far. Of course, there are only certain things you can buy locally - produce, eggs, and flowers maybe. It's difficult, and I'm afraid it's only going to get worse!