Much fewer proportion of people are driving those peugots or other tiny cars where the weight of fuel would be material relative to the time it would take to fill up fuel more often.
Another British thing that amazed me was their auto insurance prices were based on engine size, and they were fretting about the insurance cost between 2L and 3L cars, and all the vehicles we had in America were 4L+.
In 2019, the average new petrol ("gas") car in the UK requires 5.7 l of fuel per 100 km (49.2 mpg) [1].
The corresponding figure for the US is ~9.44 l/100km (24.9 mpg [2,3]).
We really, really need to decarbonise our economy worldwide and in many ways this fuel scare may be the catalyst required, with UK autotrader saying it was driving people to e-car retailers [4].
[1] https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/energy-a...
[2] https://www.iea.org/reports/fuel-consumption-of-cars-and-van...
[3] https://www.epa.gov/automotive-trends/highlights-automotive-...
[4] https://www.theguardian.com/business/live/2021/sep/27/uk-pet...
The spoils of a government that does not have a high fossil fuel tax.
My most recent car was 1.1L and was fine for anything I used it for...
I do agree that basing insurance on engine capacity is odd though. Why not power to weight ratio or something?