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Who to Blame for High Gas Prices? hmm.

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Woodrow:

--- Quote from: Jome on May 04, 2005, 02:15:10 PM ---If Bush suddenly started taking the same taxes as most of Europe do, you couldn't afford those monster cars, you'd be forced to think economy..
(Over here you pay more taxes the bigger the engine.. and big engines usually means huge fuel demand...


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HHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Just Another Sunny day in California:
who's to blame?  The oil companies.  European cars eat up gas as much as American cars. 

OneHittaSpitta:

--- Quote from: Fear and Loathing in Bakersfield on May 04, 2005, 10:25:48 AM ---^well that's cuz you people drive little rice rockets and minis all over your countries that get 5000 miles to the gallon where as in the united states we drive trucks and and mustang gt's that take up half a tank just to go to the mall........so all in all we probably SPEND as much on gas as you do

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plus, living in Southern Kali...you rack up miles on a car like nowhere else...shit lol. Not like we have good public transportation. It takes an hour and a half to go 4 miles away on the bus. We have the worst traffic in the country. My last car i put over 60,000 miles on it in 2 yrs/5 months.

Don Seer:
^ jesus!

i bought my golf in mid oct 03.. means i;ve had it for 1 1/2 years and i havent put 10k on it in that time...

you see another thing is... in this country we rarely travel more than an hour to destinations

my daily commute across town takes me 10 minutes if the roads are clear..

i do lots of short journeys in the week.. and often longer ones at the weekends


--- Quote from: Cant C Killa Kali on May 04, 2005, 08:31:45 PM ---who's to blame?  The oil companies.  European cars eat up gas as much as American cars. 

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no.. american cars are less efficient.  euro-boxes / japanese small cars (not rice rockets) are massively more fuel economic.

however.. SUVs are becoming more popular.. i even saw a H2 over here yesterday on my way home.. which is rare..

and remember that the big V8 Range Rovers are from here..

Jome:

--- Quote from: Woodrow on May 04, 2005, 08:10:35 PM ---HHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
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I don't know what you found funny, but if you paid $7.5-7.8 for gas like we do in Norway, or more than $8 like they do in Holland, I'm pretty sure you would think again before buying that Monster truck 4WD Turbo... most likely you would die of the shock when you saw the price at the gas station..  ::) :D



--- Quote from: Cant C Killa Kali on May 04, 2005, 08:31:45 PM --- European cars eat up gas as much as American cars. 
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LOL



--- Quote from: Adon on May 04, 2005, 04:52:34 PM ---when you buy a car with a big engine in the US, you pay a special gas consumption tax.
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If the taxes are as ""high"" as their gas prices, it's probably not even noticeable on the total price..

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