Nige,
I just thought it was bad here.....You're paying $10.70 per gallon??
Regular Unleaded here is $3.15 per gallon and diesel is $3.64 per gallon
Not quite as bad at that, as our gallons are bigger than yours. A US Gallon of Diesel is costing us $8.61 - premium unleaded is around the same - and regular unleaded $8.23
Where we are REALLY getting stiffed is on heating and lighting our homes - and remember this is a cold country. Heating oil is now at $4.11 for a US gallon. A fill of 1000l costs us $1087 and lasts around 6 weeks. Gas (not liquid fuel, actual gas I mean!) we buy in 47kg bottles at around $100 a bottle. We use one of those a week. Electricity is now around $67 a week for us.
So just for heating, lighting and cooking, we are paying around $350 a week, before we put a drop of gas in the car.....
To answer another question, the oil that produces most of our gas (petrol for cars that is) is home produced, from our North Sea Oilfields as they produce a light crude that's particularly suited to gas production. The rest is all imported.
Jim