Why doesn't the government and the media start quoting the market price of crude oil in euros? The reason I am suggesting this is because even when the price was skyhigh, the dollar was extremely weak. The man in the street is led to believe that the price in dollars is the actual outflow of money incurred by whoever buys the oil in Europe. It isn't. What the government pays has been considerably less but our surcharge seems to reflect the dollar price.
The government should rack its brains to find its money some other way; fuel and energy are just too serious to too many people.