Sucks how much tax you guys are paying in gas.
Here in the U.S. it kinda hurts even more because our govt's refuse to do any kind of real public transit.
For instance, here in Vegas....they have a monorail. Only it doesn't really go anywhere and nobody uses it.
They built it to go between the old Sahara (now the SLS) and The Flamingo. It stops at the LVH (off strip) also. To get on it you have to walk several blocks in the 110 degree heat and it shuts down each evening (in a 24 hour town).
The taxi drivers lobbied against it running from the airport to the strip and also against it being run to any more places on the strip. So it's almost useless.
And in the United States itself...we don't have any high speed trains. So it's either drive your car 2000 miles or fly. I believe the airline lobbies here make damn sure that we will never have trains to get us around the country.
I'm like most people...IF I could get around without have to drive...I damn sure would. Yeah, I like having my car when I take my family to dinner. But I don't want to have to drive for hours and hours to go somewhere.