Nothing can soften the pain ...........

The average price of a litre of unleaded petrol in the UK is 106.2p (£4.82 a gallon) and a litre of diesel is 112.7p (£5.12 a gallon).

The price of UK road fuel has risen 60% in the past 10 years.

$10 a gallon

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"One must never forget that monetary union, which the two of us were the first to propose more than a decade ago is ultimately a political project. It aims to give a new impulse to the historic movement towards union of the European states. Monetary union is a federative project that needs to be accompanied and followed by other steps." — Giscard d'Estaing and Helmut Schmidt