>>2024788About half the fuel price comes from taxes on it and modern cars are filled with emission reducing doodads and electronics that are very unreliable, expensive to make and expensive to maintain. Nowadays car maintenance costs as much as the fuel used to power it, which is absolutely abhorrent and completely the fault of government regulations both poisoning car design but also the highly restrictive certification process that excludes all but the largest car manufacturers from the market, creating an oligopoly that's filled with bad practices, corruption and scams at the expense of the common man.
