According to the <a href="http://bundesrecht.juris.de/energiestg/__2.html#">German Federal Law website (It is in German)</a>, Germans are to pay 65.45 Euro-Cents per litre (eg. 3.84453 USD per US Gallon) in taxes for conventional unleaded
petrol, plus Value Added Tax (19%) on the fuel itself and the Fuel Tax.
With the maths above, Germans pay 8.22 USD for a US Gallon of gas, of which 3.84 is a fuel tax. With out all of the taxes, I think that it is basically the same cost.<br><br>Just my two pence. <br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
2008/5/13 Emerson, Tom (*IC) <<a href="mailto:Tom.Emerson@wbconsultant.com">Tom.Emerson@wbconsultant.com</a>>:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
> -----Original Message----- Of Chris Louden<br>
> On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 8:24 PM, Tom Emerson<br>
> <<a href="mailto:osnut@pacbell.net">osnut@pacbell.net</a>> wrote:<br>
> ><br>
> > the price of gasoline -- 1.40+ EURO per LITRE -- at the<br>
> exchange rate<br>
> > we got (something slightly worse than $1.60 per euro), this<br>
> works out<br>
> > to about $9/gallon ...<br>
><br>
> So basically you are confirming that the price of gas really<br>
> isn't high, but that the US dollar has lost its value.<br>
> ><br>
<br>
A little of both -- if the dollar and Euro were on par at 1:1, this<br>
still works out to $6/gallon. I'm not sure, but I think I heard my<br>
friend say that the taxes on gasoline worked out to nearly 80 (euro)<br>
cents per litre (i.e., 3.20/gallon)<br>
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Tom<br>
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