From: MV (MV@dc9.tzo.com)
Date: Thu Apr 07 2005 - 13:35:47 PDT
You have some good points about per capita use.
When I was younger, I met a family on the south Rim of the Grand Canyon
and they were from Finland. They rented a Motorhome on the east coast
of the US and thought they would spend a couple weeks driving around the
USA. I remember them saying that they didn't understand why we were
such car fanatics until they got to the US and realized it was 3000
miles from ocean to ocean and the drive from the east coast to the Grand
Canyon was a little longer than they expected.
And while we really need a better rail system in this country. It would
be impossible to install enough rails to service every burg and ville in
the US. We have a lot of area in this country. Especially compared
with Europe. We will have cars for a long time, I have no idea what
they will be running on in 50 years, but I doubt it will be Saudi oil.
I don't know how the Europeans can live with $7 and $8/gallon fuel
prices. The US economy undergo some drastic changes with those kinds of
prices.
Dave
david gudmunsen wrote:
> Average price of unleaded non premium gas in the UK is currently $7 per UK
> gallon which equals $7.85 per US gallon. WE pay a very high level of tax
> here in the UK and fuel cost excluding tax is pretty much the same world
> wide. The only thig to be said for high taxation of fuel is that it sure
> increases demand for fuel efficient engines whatever their use and in view
> of the fact that demand has been increasing substantially as more and more
> countries become industrialised it means that hydrocarbon prices are going
> to continue to climb. I think the only real criticism that can reasonably be
> directed against the US is that its oil consumption per capita is so vastly
> greater than any other country in the world and the US appears unwilling to
> help with conservation.
>
> Regarding pollution US on the basis of its high oil consumption per capita
> is also directly or indirectly responsible for a higher level of pollution
> than many other countries. Though in defence of the US emmisions controls
> are stronger than most of the lesser developed nations.
>
> Best regards from David Gudmunsen
>
>
> on 4/7/05 18:24, Mil-Veh Co. at milveh@sbcglobal.net wrote:
>
>
>>A friend of mine was reading a popular Swedish
>>newspaper and a lead story on the high cost of fuel
>>blamed only one country (the USA of course) for
>>Swedens $6 a gallon fuel cost.
>>
>>I was wondering if anyone on our list knew how much
>>[tax] was including in Sweden's fuel cost, also UK's
>>tax, just for comparison? I think the UK is paying
>>almost $6 a gallon too.
>>
>>Seems to me that USA does impact the supply demand
>>ratio and that does impact the price, guilty there,
>>but then WE DO pay the same [spot price] for crude
>>that everyone else pays, so is it [totally] our fault
>>that Sweden pays $6 at the pump or is more it their
>>government for adding on the high taxes?
>>
>>Kinda tired of the U.S.A. being the world's whipping
>>boy when things go wrong.
>>
>>Thanks in advance for the info.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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