The gold has long prided itself on its tax free cradle to grave welfare system but it cant afford it any more Global Oil Prices have been looted budget deficits and twenty eighteen has ushered in the regions first value added tax in the u. A. E. And in saudi arabia a big change for two super rich countries where the mole is king but the saudis are creating even more cheer for motorists with an unannounced rise in petrol prices a doubling with immediate effect from midnight. One last fill up before gas prices go up now even saudi drivers are concerned about prices gasoline is rising in cost from twenty cents a liter to forty five cents most drivers arent happy. With the increase will affect people whose lives depend on using a car most of the time i work in a medical Equipment Company and on a normal day i drive between three hundred and four hundred kilometers so itll affect me strongly peoples more which not you can see under person ok people ignored we do except for the news but it i