"Keith G" wrote in message

When US Dollars = Euros = Pounds Sterling I say the gullible Brits are
being taken to the cleaners. Happens all the time - sorry if you think
that sounds snotty


We don't live in a world where commodities sell for the same prices in all
countries. The differences are due to a whole raft of factors, but
significantly due to marketing conditions in each country (such as the
degree of competition and the laws relating to pricing and competition) and
tax differences. Petrol costs a lot more here than it does in the US simply
due to the far larger tax take on it here (and if you think no one has
complained about that you must have been asleep for the last decade or so).
And whilst in many cases US prices are lower than ours many other countries
have higher prices than we do.

What these different prices do *not* depend on is the degree of gullibility
of different populations, and to suggest that it does is offensively
ridiculous


David.