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“As rising oil prices pushed gasoline past $5.79 per gallon in Britain, truck drivers threatened strikes and cabbies filling up at pumps complained about working extra hours to make ends meet. 

 

“ ‘You can’t do nothing about it, can you mate, given what’s going on in the Middle East,’ said James Sullivan, 50, a driver of one of Britain’s traditional black cabs.  ‘I make less money because I can’t pass the increase on to my fares, can I?’ 

 

“But Gary Hutchison, 43, also said the price is worth paying.  ‘I believe that the oil price increases are a direct result of the Iraq war,’ he said.  ‘But we went in there to free the Iraqis, and we all have to pay the price of freedom.’ ”  

 

From the Associated Press, June 3, 2004, “British Gas Prices Pass $5.79 a Gallon”.