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Originally Posted by CarlosTheGaucho
The gas in the States is still among cheapest in the world.
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People in the US have to drive farther too. People have family all over the US. People in Europe don't have to trravel that far to visit family. For example the furthest you'd travel in the UK by road would be from Aberdeen to Plymouth( and how many would actually be making that trip? ) and that's only 770 miles. That wouldn't even get you 1/3 the way from NY to SF or Maine to San Diego or Seattle to Miami.
770 miles is like going from Milwaukee to Atlanta. Look at a US map and see how little a part of the US that is and that distance if the FURTHEST you can drive in the UK
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