At the present time I am working close to home with a daily trip of about 50 miles so my average weekly fuel bill is around £56 or $100.
Previous years doing around 35,000 miles a year average fuel bill was, @ £3.50 gallon, £4080 or $7345. Weekly that is about £80 or $144. Now at £4.05 gallon it's about an extra £10 a week or $18.
Unfortunately since the pumps in the Uk went from showing Gallons, they now show Litres, the fuel companies have been given a license to print money. Years ago if the price went up 2 pence on a gallon people would shop around for the cheaper station, nowadays the companies add 2 pence a litre so often its hard to keep up. With there being 4.5 litres to the gallon you can see how complacent we have become.
What would happen if your local station added 16 cents to a gallon overnight?
When they first changed from gallons to litres they put up a conversion table on the pumps so you could convert your litres to gallons, if you ever get to see one you will laugh because they started at 20p a litre and went up to 50p litre. Now you can read it and double it and add some. It's great to be British.