The graph below gives information about how much people in the United States and the United Kingdom spend on petrol. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

The line chart compares the expenditure on fuel by the populations of the United States and the United Kingdom, categorised into three economic classifications.

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, the data contained within the visual representation reveals that the higher the economic class is the lower payment is spent on fuel in the United States

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the opposite is true in the United Kingdom. As the diagram depicts, households in the United States with very low incomes allocate 4% to 6% of their gross expenses on gas.

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figure falls marginally in middle-class families who dedicate 4% to 5% of their money to hydrocarbons. In terms of the wealthy society, it has been recorded that only 2% of up to 4% of their income is paid on fuel.

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, the financial distribution of the poor in the United Kindom is different. They spend 0.5% up to 2.5% of their monthly salary on gas,

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the proportions increase up to 4% for both average and rich households.