What are the ways that we can protest gas prices ?

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13. The Germans had a novel idea, and it worked

There was a mass outcry to the members of the Bundestag (Parliament), and they reduced the tax on gas to the point where prices dropped ten per cent in a day (!!!), and the oil companies are under pressure to join in the act and reduce their prices as well. Their argument is that existing stocks cost more, and price drops will be "soon," but the public isn't buying it.

Of course, with prices at the pump scratching $$10 per US gallon, dropping the price to $9, while appreciated, is still in stratospheric heights.

By the way, since they slyly put VAT on the entire pump price, instead of as a supplemental tax, the government was collecting tax on the tax (!!!!!). they were paying Value Added Tax on both the gas AND the mineral oil tax that was an integral part of the pump price. Something like 13 Euro cents out of every liter was tax on the tax, which is literally unconstitutional here, since the German Constitution expressly forbids double taxation. That is why a wealth tax failed at the constitutional level. It seems such a tax was arbitrarily applied to a certain ethnic group in Germany some 85 years ago, and it left a rather bitter taste in post-war memories. But sneaking it into a tax on gasoline was very clever. While illegal, no one was going to mount a class action suit for a tax that cost them a few Euros a week, so they got away with it until now. A friend of ours is a judge on the tax court here, and agreed the tax on the tax was absolutely illegal, and he would strike it down if it were to come before him. But no one has ever mounted the suit. However, a large numbers of members of parliament were deluged with local anger, and THAT got their attention.

Like Tip O'Neill said, all politics is local.