Latest news in the good old UK is that the government is thinking of making the tax on fuel a flat rate per litre rather than a percentage of the pump price. This would obviously give them a guaranteed revenue per annum rather than a huge windfall as the prices go up - on the reverse aspect if prices fell then they would still receive the same amount of money.
Around 12 months ago the UK government would have been receiving around 60p ($1.20) per litre in tax revenue. As at now they are receiving around 86p ($1.72) per litre. You would think that with all this extra revenue being poured into the coffers they would be giving us some extra benefits in other ways - strangely enough this doesn't appear to be happening.
Born free and taxed to death.
Nige