http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090102/ap_on_go_ot/gas_tax

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090103/ap_on_...s/mileage_tax_6

It could be worse...in the Uk for the last few years you have to pay $27 to take your car into London(its called the conjestion charge) and also if you have a SUV or 4x4 you have to pay $1600.00 a year to have it on the road ( called the green house charge) ,but you don`t get of if you have a normal car as you have to pay $360 ayear just to put it on the the roads (challed a road tax charge ).

so if you have a SUV you pay $1600 ,$360 ,$160 (MOT) and fuel and insurance just to drive on any road in the UK ...if its a normal car then all the above apart from the $1600 a year for GREEN charge....



If you don`t pay any of the above "charges " you get fined heavily and the the car with taken away and crushed ...you may also get a stint in the slammer aswel.

unbelievable.