QUOTE (axoid @ Sep 2 2005, 07:45)
QUOTE (bubba353z @ Sep 2 2005, 06:10)
Not to pee on everyone's Cheerios here, but Europe has been paying $4-5 per gallon for years. Granted a lot of European cities have better mass transit and are more centralized than many US cities, but they are surviving. How? - small cars and diesels power are commonplace there.
The major reason that the Europeans pay so much for gas is because their governments tax the hell of of there citizens. The UK has a 76% tax on gas. If you took away the taxes, the cost would be about the same.
That is correct and I sure as hell do not want our government taxing the hell out of our gas. We all know how well that tax money will be spent.