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Originally Posted by Ross
So in the UK we get hammered for being sensible and not sucking up all of the worlds Oil by using stupidly over powered engines that guzzle gas faster than little cars? Cool!  |
I think it comes down to having enough refineries to make all that oil usable that makes it more expensive but I agree with you that it is stupid to have to rely on heavy gas guzzlers to get around. We should have built our cities that so they don't have to rely on cars to get ANYTHING, suburbs are a stupid inefficient idea.
It's hilarious, In Canada we ship more oil to the US than any other country yet we pay almost double what they pay because instead of building more oil refineries we have been shutting them down. So essentially we send the oil to the US they refine it, mark it up and sell it back to us at a premium, then our government taxes the hell out of it.. Pretty embarrassing to say the least...