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Originally Posted by gldstwmn
Actually it's not. The United States is the second largest purchaser of petroleum, only eclipsed recently by China. The States is a far larger country dependent on driving for getting from point A to point B. We don't have the sophisticated rail system that Europe does. I wish we did. We buy oil in such quantities that we should not be paying these prices. We are most definitely getting gouged.
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Well,
we don't have the cheap national flight fares that you guys have. Or an airport in every city.
Train fares here are even more expensive than gas.
