Talking about fuel, I may have the details wrong here but apparently North Sea oil which is ours we sell to the US because it's high grade stuff, then we buy all the low grade stuff off the Arabs at daft prices.
I'm sometimes at a loss to understand UK economics, like how we nit pick about a miilion here and there for a hospital ward but allow Vodaphone to get away with a six billion pound tax bill. You would think people were taking back handers here and there, perish the thought.