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Americans drive a lot more than Europeans. I'm not sure if it's a totally fair comparison, but still a good point.

• eru 14y ago
  Yes. And driving less is one of the predictable reactions to higher petrol prices.
  • Ntrails 14y ago
    It's also a space thing. As a Brit the thing I didn't get so well before going there is how sodding big the US is, and how normal it's citizens think it is to drive to the next town over which just happens to be an hour or so away.
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    • cantankerous 14y ago
      I was doing just this with a German foreign exchange student in Missouri once. He commented about halfway there that, if he were at home, we'd be in Poland already.
  • cantankerous 14y ago
    Americans will continue to drive automobiles more than Europeans if gas prices were to go to parity. Our mass transit infrastructure is laughable by comparison. Also, we're way more spread out than Europe is.