Reply #5: Europeans drive short distances, have mass transit, and [View All]

[Warpy]

have health care. Fuel charges don't take the enormous bite out of their budgets that they do here, where people often live an hour or more away from work, there is inadequate to no mass transit, and we get socked for profit driven healthcare.

I'd love to see higher gas prices, anything to get what my 88 year old father calls "those fucking rolling billboards" off the roads. I just know a lot of us will be badly hurt in the process, and it's unfair to compare the US with Europe in ability to afford oil company profiteering.