“Recession” is a technical term that is used to describe an economy that has suffered two successive quarters of negative growth to its Gross Domestic Product. It has nothing to do with people’s spending power or the cost of living (which is what your question, 10CS, seems to concentrate on).
Having cleared that up there is no doubt that some of what you say has some elements of truth among it, though you need to be a bit less hysterical with your “facts” and their causes.
Your comparison of the cost of fuel in the US and the UK has already been shown to be a little inaccurate. However, there is no doubt that motorists in the US pay about half that paid by UK motorists for their fuel. The main cause of this is government led - fuel duty and VAT. Currently the product price of a litre of petrol (cost at the pumps £1.35) is about 54p. For this the oil company finds crude oil, gets it out od the ground, transports, it vast distances, refines it into fuel, transports it to the pumps and delivers it to your tank. For the other 81p (a tax rate of 250%) the government does precisely nothing. However, the government is doing its bit. Ten years ago when petrol was about 79p the Exchequer was taking a whopping 80% of that price in tax - a tax rate of almost 500%. By contrast fuel duty in the USA is about 12 cents per litre - about 11% on factor’s $4 gallon.
Energy prices are similarly heavily influenced by the government. Huge stealth taxes to fund useless “green” initiatives are foisted on consumers. Meanwhile the government has no coherent energy policy, there is a very good chance of the lights going out in the next year or two because power stations are being decommissioned without replacement and very little gas storage facilities are in place. (The UK has about ten days supply whilst most of the continent has about three months in hand).
CEO’s salaries have increased considerably, however Svejk’s “3,000” factor does not stand up to scrutiny. The minimum wage for a worker on a 40 hour week is around £13,200. I don’t know of too many CEOs in the UK who are earning £40m. In fact the average pay for a CEO of a FTSE100 company is £4.8m but many smaller companies pay considerably less than that.