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Old 05-28-2008, 06:10 PM
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Indeed... but you guys have free universal health care and heavily subsidized universities. I think that's infinitely preferable to cheap petrol!
No we don't. The health service is not free, it costs a fortune. It's free at the point of care, which is an entirely different thing. Average student debt on leaving university is around £15,000, or about $30,000, and rising.

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So most of Europe's got more expensive gas. I betcha most people over there don't drive 50 miles to work (& then 50 miles home) on a bumper-to-bumper freeway the way they do in Southern California. Plus, their currency goes a lot farther these days than the American dollar, which ain't worth the price of wiping with it.
Well you bet wrong. Some people drive here that far, especially those who work in London and live outside, although not all by any means. But then neither do most Americans, I suspect. Our roads are clogged up to **** all over the country - I took 2 hours to drive about 6 miles this evening. And our currency is going just about nowhere right now, same as yours Some people have no idea whatsoever what other countries are like.
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