$5.85 a US gallon? Horrendous, you’re up to 70% of what diesel costs in Sweden today.[1]
Here in the US (and probably Sweden too), those taxes are not sufficient to pay all of the roadway costs, so tax money from general funds - income taxes, sales/use/vat(?), etc - get diverted to help cover costs.
In reality, the overall cost of fuel is probably very similar. It’s just that the overall cost is more directly reflected in the price shown at the fuel station in Sweden than in the US.
Which is double of the US price.
Good thing the majority of The Netherlands does everything on a bicycle and doesn't need a car.
It does hurt the transportation industry though. And agriculture, construction, heavy industries.
[1] https://www.cbs.nl/nl-nl/longread/rapportages/2026/onderweg-...
I am feeling it for folks who use oil heat (diesel with different tax structure) in areas where there is no natural gas.
Home heating oil runs at about 75% the cost of diesel. The storage tanks are 275 gallons/1100 litres, so a fill-up, which might happen four to six times in a winter, would be extremely painful right now.
We couldn't and didn't vote the primary cause for this in office, thank you very much.
It always makes me laugh when people can't follow an argument or chain of thought -- or misconstrue because they need to win random Internet arguments