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Old 06-18-2008, 03:38 PM  
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Originally Posted by allanuk View Post
i thought that as costs of fuel in the usa is far cheaper, that tends to keep costs down more.

in the uk they heavily tax fuel, and this means everything else is expensive.

we also have charges for parking everywhere now.
Yea gas was about 1/6 as much here as it was for you guys but now we are up to about 1/2 of what it is in the UK. Because we never had to be efficient (it was so cheap no one cared) we have cars that are very fuel inefficient and we don't live near the places we work. Also, no one ever wanted to take public transportation unless you were in on the 5 biggest cities in the country so that means of transportation isn't developed in 99% of the country.
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