Re: US gasoline: ridiculously cheap

On May 26, 1:20 pm, Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelati...@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
William Mook wrote:
Eeyore 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.

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.

No, the requiremnet for road maintenace is for the most part determined by the
quantity of traffic using it. You idea is barking mad.

Americans do *NOT* cover 7 times the miles Europeans do anyway..

In fact Americans seem to travel about 1 1/2 times as many miles by car as
Europeans. The huge size of the country doesn't come into play that much since so
much travel is in urban areas and distances aren't that different there between the
USA and Europe.

Graham

The numbers were representative to illustrate a point;

http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/ene_oil_con_tho_bar_dai_percap-thousand-barrels-daily-per-capita

UK 291 barrels per day per 10,000 people
US 694 barrels per day per 10,000 people

694/291 = 2.38

and

Singapore 1,690 per day per 10,000 people

1690 / 291 = 5.81

Here are the roadways

http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/tra_roa_pav-transportation-roadways-paved

US 4,165,110 km
UK 388,008 km

US/UK = 10.73x




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