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High petrol taxes are defensible on ecological grounds.
The key factor responsible for this is the price difference between diesel and petrol.
It must be noted that this measure would not have the desired impact as long as difference between diesel and petrol prices is significant.
The petrol station is the branded building par ex cellence, though it is hard to see quite why.