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lovuian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-01-06 09:59 PM Original message |
EU drivers to U.S. drivers: Tough luck |
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Gatchaman (944 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-01-06 10:03 PM Response to Original message |
1. Have their gas prices doubled in the last 2 years? |
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valerief (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-01-06 10:03 PM Response to Original message |
2. Well, they're not driving the consumer tanks we call SUVS either. n/t |
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Deja Q (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-01-06 10:06 PM Response to Original message |
3. They pay more taxes and some claim they have better public transport... |
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Oversea Visitor (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-01-06 10:08 PM Response to Original message |
4. Spin |
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magellan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-01-06 11:35 PM Response to Reply #4 |
12. It's not actually |
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Oversea Visitor (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-02-06 12:06 AM Response to Reply #12 |
16. Of course they pay more |
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magellan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-02-06 12:28 AM Response to Reply #16 |
18. Oh, the NEWS part of it is spin, agreed |
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Oversea Visitor (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-02-06 04:25 AM Response to Reply #18 |
23. Gee |
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Benhurst (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-01-06 10:09 PM Response to Original message |
5. Europeans have excellent mass transportation and national |
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Spider Jerusalem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-02-06 12:21 AM Response to Reply #5 |
17. We are a Potemkin superpower. |
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ForrestGump (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-02-06 03:49 AM Response to Reply #5 |
22. Mass transit has been on the chopping block for decades here |
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Doremus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-01-06 10:15 PM Response to Original message |
6. They also don't hog 25% of the world's supply... |
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lovuian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-01-06 10:18 PM Response to Reply #6 |
7. Ya know they don't want to admit it but they are hurting too |
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SoCalDem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-01-06 10:21 PM Response to Original message |
8. Caroline Gregson of London, can drive her mini to her medical |
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DBoon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-01-06 10:32 PM Response to Original message |
9. Well if we are going to pay European prices for gasoline |
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AndyTiedye (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-01-06 10:45 PM Response to Reply #9 |
11. More Than Half The European Price is Tax (Which Pays for Transit, etc.) |
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Stockholm (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-02-06 03:22 AM Response to Reply #9 |
19. Bumpersticker material right there |
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bluestateguy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-01-06 10:38 PM Response to Original message |
10. If we had the western European social welfare state I could handle it |
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Maddy McCall (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-01-06 11:40 PM Response to Original message |
13. Don't they have national health care and better social services? |
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CountAllVotes (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-01-06 11:44 PM Response to Original message |
14. fair play Europe |
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Mikimouse (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-01-06 11:59 PM Response to Reply #14 |
15. Ummm, whose fault is that? It isn't theirs... |
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rman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-02-06 03:39 AM Response to Original message |
20. It leaves out a few relevant facts, |
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ForrestGump (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-02-06 03:42 AM Response to Original message |
21. I've lived where gasoline was five or six dollars a US gallon |
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radwriter0555 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-02-06 05:28 AM Response to Original message |
24. LOL, gas prices aren't that high in France. I paid $1.37 per litre |
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muriel_volestrangler (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-02-06 06:38 AM Response to Reply #24 |
25. Here's the calculation: |
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