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(2,971 posts)a kennedy
(29,710 posts)SKKY
(11,823 posts)...Europe isn't going to endure much more of this.
Hulk
(6,699 posts)Not so sure the higher taxes are directed to health care, as some have suggested. Their roads are so far superior to the cracked up, crappy roads we are driving on in inner cities.
You get what you pay for. I always thought gas should be taxed heavier all along - for road improvement...but then if you did, everyone in greedy amuriKKKa would pass that gas increase along to the consumers, and it would be a golden opportunity to gouge the little guy once again.
Our nation are such whiners and simple minded fools. That's partly why the gQp has so many following along of fox propaganda network and all the reich wing radio hate-spewers. "Simple solutions for simple minds". Getting into the weeds of information is too much trouble for the fox-mentality.
Samrob
(4,298 posts)sight.
Tomconroy
(7,611 posts)msongs
(67,443 posts)RussBLib
(9,036 posts)in so many ways
jimfields33
(15,969 posts)Weve added around 70 million since the 1980s.
Sogo
(4,993 posts)to fund their "socialized" medicine.
The cost of petrol in Europe has always been significantly higher there than in the US because of it.
We just borrow, and still go bankrupt when we get sick.
By the way...
The freeway from Lisbon to Faro is phenomenal. Paid $42 euro in tolls too. Expensive to drive here. Real expensive. Good thing they have trains that go everywhere for less than gas costs. Some go 250 kph.
No gas guzzlers here....
VMA131Marine
(4,149 posts)Oh, thats right there arent any.
Tickle
(2,541 posts)closer
jalan48
(13,886 posts)intrepidity
(7,336 posts)AnotherDreamWeaver
(2,852 posts)Midnight Writer
(21,803 posts)MontanaMama
(23,337 posts)I pay $2000 a month for my family of three here in MT. Not sure I could afford more in Europe.
Skittles
(153,193 posts)do you have national healthcare?
I'd be fine paying that for gas if we had guaranteed healthcare.
paleotn
(17,971 posts)Every advanced nation has some version thereof except..............
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Skittles
(153,193 posts)I don't like folk comparing their gas prices to ours - when they go bankrupt because of medical care THEN they can talk
paleotn
(17,971 posts)It's not an apples to apples comparison. Same comparing state taxes within the US.
panader0
(25,816 posts)PufPuf23
(8,839 posts)JCMach1
(27,574 posts)I remember very well as I had rented the high powered Mercedes McClaren to scratch the Autobahn off my bucket list.
But oh my, the pain of the gas fill-up.
leftieNanner
(15,155 posts)Until you explain to them that it's sold by the litre. (Notice appropriate spelling )
Gore1FL
(21,152 posts)Initech
(100,104 posts)70sEraVet
(3,515 posts)jcgoldie
(11,647 posts)From everyone in Portugal...
Hulk
(6,699 posts)That's pretty much been the price for quite a long time. No major price increases during this time of "gouge and make a dollar" in the rest of the world.
Pemex is the national gas network here in Mexico, but in recent years they have allowed other petroleum companies set up to compete. Prices are really about the same. It varies maybe a peso between stations. It does get cheaper up around Nuevo Laredo...but I don't like hanging around up there on the border any longer than necessary.
We were paying these prices right along for the last several years. Something to be said for nationalized petroleum production.
OneCrazyDiamond
(2,032 posts)Unfortunately that means more at the pump. Hopefully it pushes people to EVs, or at least more car pooling.
marieo1
(1,402 posts)We all have to do what we need to do to fight the USSR............Thank you, everyone!!!