Re: US gasoline: ridiculously cheap



William Mook wrote:

Eeyore wrote:

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.

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

It's not all for transport though is it ? Anyway, lets assume for argument's sake that American
vehicles use 3 gallons of fuel for ever 2 in Europe due to the poor 'mileage' in the USA and we
allocate those figures above to motor vehicle use.

Your 2.38:1 becomes 1.59:1 which seems more realistic to me.


and Singapore 1,690 per day per 10,000 people

1690 / 291 = 5.81

Very obviously that's not all car use then ! Do you know how small Singapore is ?


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

All that shows is that traffic density here is much higher than in the USA. I knew that already.

Graham


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