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Originally Posted by Scott McD
I understand that but, how often do Americans HAVE to travel long distances really? Surely most would try and find jobs which aren't a huge distance away, and family etc can't be spread all over America just because it's a "big country" ?
Even if Scotland was bigger, i'm not sure how that would affect how far i need to travel for work, or how far do my friends and family live.
Curious how many miles many people in America actually do in a week, just to try and compare it a bit better, and then we could see if you really DO pay roughly the same in cost for gas, considering we are more than double the price over here...
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Looks like average number of miles driven in the US is 15,000 per year, while in the EU it is 4,500 miles per year. People in the US generally live much further away from work because, in having all this space, and since the invention of big highways in the late 40s and early 50s, people have wanted to have more space, more land, bigger homes, etc... all for lower cost, i.e. further from urban centers. The average living space for POOR. American households is 1,200 square feet. In Europe, the average space for all households, not just the poor, is 1,000 square feet. We basically trade space for increased travel distances from work.
One other thing, SO MUCH of our argicultural products are distributed by trucks, an increase gas goes directly towards an increase in food prices
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