The fuel costs (and costs of any other damaging products) in the UK and indeed most of Europe are high to protect the environment, the theory is that the more expensive these things are the less damage they will do to the environment and the ozone layer, meaning that a half litre of fuel costing 10 dollars will actually do less damage than the same amount of fuel costing 10 cents, now doesn't that make perfect sense?
And British doctors, specialists and scientists have actually cured cancer and lung diseases, if you buy a pack of twenty cigarettes for two dollars you get cancer in under a year, but if you pay 14 dollars for a pack like what we would in Britain you are totally immune, how cool is that?