Re: US gasoline: ridiculously cheap

On May 26, 11:07 am, Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelati...@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
William Mook wrote:
Do you think the size of the US relative to these other European
countries might have something to do with the amount of fuel consumeed
in those countries?

In practice there's not that much difference in annual miles or km covered per
person and of course Europeans cover much more of that by train, so depressing
the number by car.

Graham

Which makes my point. If you burn 100 gallons a year and I burn 700
gallons per year and we both are going to pay for the same amount of
roadway maintenance with gas taxes then you're going to pay 7x as much
all other things being equal.
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