Every barrel exported from the Middle East earns a European treasury up to three times what a Gulf government gets. Kuwait's Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, Sulaiman Al-Shaheen, reflects a wider Gulf view that it is time to lower those fuel taxes. And this is your issue in Europe. You have to find also the solution for this problem within your countries. It hardly appears a problem on the streets of Kuwait.
Petrol costs next to nothing for the Gulf consumer.
However, while the oil price is high, money flows in and the good times roll. In the record stores and boutiques of Kuwait's Sharq shopping mall, affluent teenagers are gathering, back from their summer holidays in London and the United States. I asked them what they thought of the oil crisis in the West. I'm not sure about the West. All I know is about Kuwait.